Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painful to have the season end like this," O'Brien said. "They shut us down. We haven't played on grass in a while--that affected us. We weren't able to carry and receive the ball well...
Keating sought to keep his savings and loan operating even though the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in San Francisco had found enough bad loans and shaky business practices to shut it down. After Keating purchased Lincoln in 1984, he switched from investing in safe, single-family mortgages to go-go deals in raw land, junk bonds and huge development projects like the $900-a-night Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz...
Deck the Halls: Princeton's Andrew Dechet (5-4--14) continues to lead the Ivy in scoring. Nick Ziadle (4-3--11) appears to be the only player who could catch Dechet on the last weekend, but Ziadle will need additional help from the Quaker defense to shut down the high-scoring Tiger when the two teams clash to close out the Ivy season...
...past each other at the pace of 2 in. a year. But this movement of the plates is not uniform. Along fault zones the plates tend to become "locked," resisting the overall motion. Explains Berkeley seismologist Robert Uhrhammer: "Stress builds up in these areas that are in effect welded shut. It's as if the rock were being stretched like a big rubber sheet." At a certain point the rock snaps, allowing the plates to slip and release stress. The result is an earthquake...
Perhaps the most important planning efforts concerned ways of coping in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. quickly shut off power in San Francisco to minimize chances that a spark might ignite gas leaking from ruptured lines. As a result, only seven buildings were lost to fire. Frightened residents in dozens of towns could find detailed instructions on household safety measures in their telephone books...