Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them and force the shutdown of all but the most essential federal functions, such as air-traffic control and the mailing of Social Security checks. "He can run the parts of government that are left [after the cuts], or he can run no government," Gingrich said, adding wryly, "Which...
There were no serious discussions of making the White House a museum and moving the President's living quarters and offices out of Washington, though that and other suggestions have been around for almost all the White House's 200-year history. Indeed, after the initial and rather stealthy shutdown of Pennsylvania Avenue, which carried 26,000 vehicles a day, there was a kind of jubilation over the serenity and pedestrian access to the broad avenue between Lafayette Park and the White House. Hundreds of strollers, Rollerbladers and bicyclists invaded the asphalt with happy shouts...
...nine-room "golf-party" earlier this yearin Kirkland House, organizers said $700 worth ofalcohol was consumed in 45 minutes. Although eachroom filed the proper forms, the party was shutdown within an hour...
...MBTA, however, received a threat yesterday which forced a temporary shutdown of nearly the entire subway system yesterday afternoon...
...University officials say the fact that Harvard was prepared for the shutdown demonstrates the extent of Harvard's turnaround...