Word: shut
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...Supreme Court rejected Michigan's request to temporarily shut down three locks to stop mammoth Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes. But the battle is far from over. As news broke that scientists had detected DNA from the fish in Lake Michigan, the White House--which also opposed the shutdown--agreed to convene an Asian-carp summit for worried Great Lakes governors. U.S. Representative Dave Camp of Michigan, meanwhile, introduced a bill to halt the potential spread of the aggressive fish and develop a strategy to close the waterways...
...cannot lose sight of the fact that at this time the American people are talking very loudly,” Steele said. “I’ll do what my mama said when I was a young boy and shut up and listen...
...from his colleagues, then getting a call that his father died. Gates was convinced that watching him go through those hearings and investigations was too much for his father's weak heart. The shock and the stress of those six months was too much for Gates as well. He shut the door to his office and wept...
...that Microsoft Word wasn't optimized for, you had to launch another application, create and modify a new element there, and then move back to your original application environment, where you could deposit the alien data object. A number of proposed interfaces - most famously, Apple's failed OpenDoc initiative, shut down shortly after the company acquired NeXT - promised to reverse the priorities: our desktops would prioritize the tasks over the tools, the documents over the applications. The user wouldn't launch documents inside an application. They'd just create a document on its own, which would lie there like...
...Such cyberbattles are already happening in miniature. In Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. cyberwarriors are hard at work denying enemy commanders the ability to direct their forces, the senior Pentagon officer says. "I shut it down, take away your electricity, take away the radio, infect your phone," he explains. "Now you don't know where I'm coming from, or if you do, you can't tell the rest of your force what's going on." More insidiously, the U.S. can doctor the information the foe gets. "I can alter the messages coming across," he says...