Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate and a fierce battle in the Senate for ratification. The fight will be fierce because SALT'S opponents, who believe the treaty concedes a perilous degree of Soviet superiority, are determined and well organized. They number almost one-quarter of the Senate, and need only one-third to block ratification and inflict a disastrous defeat on Carter's presidency...
Kennedy-Metzenbaum would categorically block takeovers or mergers between companies that have either assets or annual sales of more than $2 billion, a group that includes some 150 of the top U.S. industrial firms. The bill would also stop takeovers by these firms of the hundreds of additional companies around the country that have $350 million or more in assets or sales...
...agreement removes the last major block to full economic relations between the United States and China...
...Akiro Kursawa's Samurai films, telling the story of a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who offers his services to each of two factions warring in village. After some reversals, he of course ends up helping the side that deserves his skills. The film served as a model for the first block-buster spaghetti western, Fistful of Dollars, which brought Clint Eastwood to fame...
...Magazine Industry of the 1980s--M.J. (chip) Block, Jr., president, Redwood Communications, Rm 24, Alken Computation...