Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismissing the Town of Milton's suit to block the extension of MBTA rapid transit lines from Ashmont to Mattapan, Judge Frank W. Tomasello apparently ended a four-year delay in construction of the library...
...will probably start Ken O'Connell at fullback rather than Gus Crim. Both run strong and block hard. A difficult choice...
...liberal block, based in Maricopa County Phoenix) with about half the state's population) and Tucson (University of Arizona), hasn't yet formed a coalition with the large--still unmilitant-brown (Mexican-American) community, but that may soon change. With Barry Goldwater's victory in a November Senate contest all but assured, the conservative party apparatus, long nurtured by retiring Sen. Carl Hayden's patronage, will suffer a serious setback opening the way for a 1970 liberal coup...
...Mississippi and the Deep South problems of the liberals are quite different. The blacks and the white liberals while a significant voting block can never influence party policy--the polarization is too great now. The only way to change the policies is by building a parallel party structure outside the state structure. This involves isolating the liberal block further, and brings up another major problem, what happens when the liberal block realizes that it is a chronic minority with no hope of ever winning office. Even with national party recognition as in Mississippi this problem is being faced...
Plessey's Clark could conceivably block the get-together by sweetening his offer to English Electric shareholders. But until terms of the agreement with British G.E. are made public, he will have obviously no idea about how much to raise the ante. An alternative for Clark would be to merge Plessey with another firm, one possibility being Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., an aircraft and diesel-engine manufacturer. And he can always hope for a miracle, like the government's withdrawing its approval of the proposed merger. In the U.S., the Justice Department would cast the dourest...