Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, UCLA's original system, ORION, is disabled due to Y2K difficulties. Since ORION could not recognize due-dates after December 1999, it could not keep track of circulation and had to be shut down...
...From then on, it was all Harvard. Running back Troy Jones put the Crimson up for good with a touchdown run late in the first quarter, and the Harvard defense shut down Columbia from then on. Jones and running back Chris Menick were the key contributors to the Harvard rushing attack that racked up 264 yards on 40 carries. Quarterback Brad Wilford threw for 190 yards to earn a victory in his first career start...
...Walland capped off the 1998 season by solving a fearsome Crimson defense in the fourth quarter. Shut down for almost the entire game, he awoke midway through the quarter to drive Yale 71 yards, ending with a 9-yard touchdown strike to cut Harvard's lead to 7-6 with 5:33 left to play...
...kids enter high school, parents worry that mediocre grades may shut them out of top colleges, which may prevent them from getting fulfilling jobs that pay well. Those are legitimate fears, says Frances Schoonmaker, an associate professor at Teachers College in New York City, "but so far in this country, we still have doors people can take advantage of even if they don't have high grades." Families struggling with less than stellar report cards may take comfort in the knowledge that straight A's are often looked on as potentially problematic. A flawless record can be a sign that...
...that unusual flight pattern now centers on some sort of human, rather than technical, problem with the flight. Especially now that the flight data recorder, recovered earlier in the week, revealed that the plane had been taken off autopilot shortly before the crash -- and that both engines were shut off seconds before the 767 made its final, fatal descent. "Someone on that airplane was trying to make that airplane crash and they succeeded," a former United Airlines pilot with 7,000 hours flight time in 767s told the Associated Press...