Word: shut
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...Zing!” said Fee. “Well, I’m no despot, and I’m glad to hear Meghan’s voice, even if she is being a Negative Nancy. Let’s have a vote. Shut your eyes…okay! Leon, Jannie, Caitlin, Me want the costumes, and Haven, Elizabeth, Evan, and Meghan say no. Where’s Annie...
...shut down the three, we're not going to win," Stehle said. "We've given up 50 percent from three over the past two games, and you won't beat anyone in any league -- high school, YMCA or 60-and-over leagues -- if people are shooting 50 percent from three against...
...pollutants into the Songhua River; in Beijing. Xie is the highest-ranking official to lose his job over an environmental disaster. Official reports gave no details on Xie's role in government decisions to withhold information from the public about the river contamination, which resulted in a four-day shut-off of water for more than 3 million people in the city of Harbin. The poisonous slick, expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk on Dec. 15, has also contaminated water supplies in at least five cities downstream of Harbin...
...similar outbursts in other cities, then I think he had to move. But I said later to [then Premier] Li Peng, "When I had trouble with my sit-in communist students, squatting in school premises and keeping their teachers captive, I cordoned off the whole area around the schools, shut off the water and electricity, and just waited. I told their parents that health conditions were deteriorating, dysentery was going to spread. And they broke it up without any difficulty." I said to Li Peng, you had the world's TV cameras there waiting for the meeting with Gorbachev...
...Further complicating the situation was the fact that the Army’s first research reactor had been built at the Arsenal in 1960. Though operations ceased a decade later, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not formally shut down the reactor until...