Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign back in the window...
...tend to underestimate their strengths and overlook your own weaknesses." An executive of a West German- owned U.S. subsidiary recalls a dramatic showdown: "Their people would come here and put down our people, our work ethics. I had a little problem with that. I finally slammed my door shut and told my German counterpart that I didn't need him telling us how good he was and how weak we were. We never had any problems after that...
...NOTEBOOK: Connecticut is the second team to shut out the Crimson this season; Columbia blanked Harvard, 1-0 in overtime, in Ivy League action last month...The Huskies are ranked fourth in New England behind Vermont, Boston University and Yale...Sophomore John Shue started at right fullback for an injured Roger Chapman. Chapman missed his second straight game with an ankle injury...Harvard is currently 1-1-0 in the Ivy League, which puts it in a four-way tie for fourth place. Columbia leads the Ivies with a 2-0 record, followed by Penn (1-1-1)...The Harvard...
Cornell, which hadn't been shut out since losing to Brown, 22-0, midway through the 1985 season, slipped to 1-1 and lost a home season-opener for the third straight year...
...Feng's second ace is electricity. Across China, electric power is in such short supply that even favored state-owned operations must routinely shut down for two or three days a week. Lun Feng beat the power problem with money. For about $3 million, the factory installed five auxiliary diesel generators. With eleven workers maintaining the equipment 24 hours a day, eight seconds is the longest Lun Feng has been without electric power...