Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glass blower's union, also AFL-CIO affiliates, did not endorse the boycott either. They pointed to their 30 years of relatively harmonious unionization in the Gallo factory. UFW staff member Johnson says they did not endorse the boycott because they feared that the militant UFW would strike and shut off the flow through the factory, forcing lay-offs of other workers. One of the reasons the Teamsters wanted to unionize the field workers was to cement their hold on the food industry from the fields to the trucks to the stores, he adds...
After all, the tradition of Columbia upsets goes all the way back to September 28, 1923 when in the first game ever played at Baker Field the Lions shut out Ursinus College, which, as it turns out, is the alma mater of Brown's head coach John Anderson...
...polls are proposals to impose strict restrictions on the construction of nuclear power plants in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington. Aware that the defeat of California's nuclear proposition last June may have been caused by fears that existing nuclear plants might have to be shut down, thus causing unemployment and economic loss, environmentalists are concentrating on future nuclear-plant construction. In general their proposals would remove the $560 million federal limit that now exists on the total amount of damages that could be claimed by victims of a nuclear accident; forbid new plants to operate unless...
They should have paid closer attention to their victim. They should have noticed, for example, that when Carrie is around, ashtrays have a way of hop ping up off desks, that mirrors suddenly break for no reason at all, that windows have a way of slamming shut without anyone's touching them. For Carrie possesses the power of telekinesis, the ability to animate objects and make them obey her will. In short, beneath that mousey exterior, that shy desire simply to be accepted, a terrible power lurks, waiting to be called forth...
...Sunday, upset-minded Middlebury shut the Crimson attack down completely, but Seidler turned in another superb effort, and the stickwomen escaped with their second 0-0 deadlock of the year...