Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful Association of American Railroads' lobby has managed to block broad federal legislation that would set minimum safety standards like those required of airlines. A regulatory bill introduced during the last session of Congress got only as far as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, where it suffered a quiet death...
...Leverett House Committee constitution effectively forbids coed candidacies by requiring that committee members be formally affiliated with the House. Donner commented, "Had our constitution even allowed it, I would have tried to block it because I think that it's a disturbance to what we're trying...
Both the stabber of last week and Jane Britton's killer have not yet been found, and judging by the murder of Mrs. Ada Bean one half block away from Comstock Hall, the killer may still be in Cambridge. Neither Cambridge nor University Police have responded to the situation by increasing their patrols in the Radcliffe area...
...evidence to suggest that Youth Fare was in fact unreasonable. Youth Fare was paying its own way and making a profit besides: full-fare passengers were not subsidizing students, as many of them believed. The fact that Youth Fare was profitable had another implication: the airlines would try to block acceptance of the Examiner's report designed to eliminate the service...
...fires, all of which occurred the night of Feb. 19, "were deliberately set," said Lt. John R. Ambrogne of the Boston Fire Marshall's office. The building is one half-block from Radcliffe's Comstock Hall...