Word: shut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success of Operation Intercept, President Nixon's project to shut off the flow of Mexican marijuana into this country, and a poor Mexican harvest have caused such a shortage of grass in the Boston area that local pushers have resorted to blending it with a number of look-alike substitutes...
...which is geared to nuclear war, is surprisingly inadequate for interdiction strikes, "a fact shrouded in professional embarrassment." He claims that the Communist war effort in the South requires a volume of supplies so small compared with the North's capacity to deliver that it cannot be effectively shut off. Sealing off Haiphong, he also contends, would not have been a decisive move, since only a small portion of vital war supplies arrives through that port...
...change in attitude, and its tangible effect upon Harvard's performance. was quite noticeable. The junior line of Steve Owen, Joe Cavanagh and Dan DeMichele, which had been reunited last week but was shut out in the Northeastern game, accounted for one goal in each period, all by DeMichele...
...said that although the pollution in the Cayoga River could be eliminated, it would be at tremendous expense to industries which use the river. The financial burden would probably shut down the Republic Steel Company, he claimed, causing a wave of unemployment throughout the Cleveland ghettos. "Is this in the public interest?" Calkins asked...
...Over the next three months, automakers plan to assemble 2,580,453 vehicles, 417,453 fewer than they made last December, January and February. Automakers blame most of the slowdown on the fact that the public simply is not in the mood to buy. This week Chrysler plans to shut down three of its seven assembly plants for a week and three more for a day, because its dealers are overstocked with 1970 cars...