Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against Yale, the Crimson scored two first period goals and then was shut out for the remainder of the game. Saturday, Harvard tallied three times against Brown in the first frame, but its guns fell silent in the final two periods...
Reporters at the Herald Examiner, Los Angeles' No. 2 daily, are used to having doors shut in their faces. After the editors announced earlier this year that they would publish a series of tough articles on the city's problems during Mayor Tom Bradley's campaign for a fifth term, the paper's reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more...
...sure they are followed. Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody on the plant floor has the authority to shut down the entire line. And it happens...
Until recently, it was the problem of tritium replenishment that concerned most nuclear experts. Last year the DOE was forced to shut down its only source of tritium, the aging Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, when the reactors there developed cracks and other safety problems. The risk that the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal might soon run out of gas provoked long and acrimonious debates in Congress. In the midst of that controversy word came that the DOE had been making millions of dollars a year by selling surplus tritium overseas. Some of the gas, it was revealed...
...crying, and my parents would just sit me in front of the TV to watch hockey," Weisbrod remembers. "It was the only way they could get me to shut...