Word: shut
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...themselves instead nearly immobilized by the ethics controversy surrounding DeLay. Though they have a full and ambitious legislative agenda, starting with President Bush's call for Social Security reform, "every meeting we have is now a meeting about Tom DeLay," complains a Republican aide. Many congressional offices have quietly shut down all travel...
...they referred to their Indian clients as, among other epithets, "monkeys" and "losers," even as they charged these clients fees that totaled upward of $66 million. It's far from clear what, precisely, the tribes were getting for their investment. In one instance, Abramoff and Scanlon secretly maneuvered to shut down a Texas casino operated by the Tiguas--only to turn around and offer their services to get it reopened for a fee of more than $125,000 a month...
...there is one place, at least for now, where no such scrutiny is taking place: the House ethics committee. DeLay has said he would welcome a chance to explain everything to the panel, which last year admonished him three times. But Democrats have shut down the committee, saying they object to rule changes that make it impossible to open an investigation without the support of at least one member of each party. DeLay says he sees little more than a Democratic plot at work. "The only way I can be cleared is through the ethics committee, so they...
...Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003, he asked Lee, the senior R&D executive, to get rid of an annoying noise made by grinding gears in the transmissions of Kia Amanti sedans. Lee worried that he'd have to shut down production entirely to work on the problem. "I told him that we'd lose two months of sales," he recalls. "The chairman said: 'If it's for quality...
...power in a square-mile section of Washington, including the Capitol building. Office workers groped through dim hallways toward daylit exits, subway trains coasted into motionlessness, and tourists stood around in knots, prevented by guards from entering the darkened Capitol. But no mere utility collapse could be allowed to shut down the U.S. Senate. Under the pallid glow of a lone emergency light, the lawmakers went about their business as usual. Since the bells normally used to call the Senate to order had been knocked out, a clerk gained the attention of the nation's most exclusive debating society...