Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes to buy. At 3:30 the market rammed the 550-point barrier that triggers an hour shutdown. But the exchange closes at 4 p.m. Game, set, match...
...hours later, as you careen through transitions and subject-verb agreements, your world suddenly comes to a grinding halt. Accompanied by a nasty sound from the computer, the monitor tells you: "This application has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown...
...police that had always been part of federal gun-control laws. The lawmakers apparently hoped the prospect of disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan, all-night effort to avoid a government shutdown. Before the potential implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse that kind of behavior, even...
...student, dies after consuming 24 ounces of hard liquor in less than an hour as part of a pledging ritual at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, according to an April 26 article in The Record. A separate article reported on Aug. 28 that this incident prompted a five-year shutdown of his fraternity...
...trouble with Congressional Republicans isn't that they like a good fight--it's the fights they like to pick. Time and again, most notably during the government shutdown in 1995, the Clinton Administration has beat up on G.O.P. lawmakers and in the end subjected them to painful public embarrassment. So when House Republicans forced a showdown last week with the President over his treasured plan for national math and reading tests for students--despite a White House threat to veto an entire spending bill if the testing money was not included--it seemed on the face of it that...