Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Business could also expand employment, Jones believes, if the U.S. were not the most litigious society in history, if small groups of interveners could not so easily block plant construction and expansion. "There is something to the old tale that when there is one lawyer in town, he starves, but when there are two, they both drive Cadillacs...
...first major demonstration against the Corporation's South African investments did not earn him brownie points for talkativeness. Surrounded by a group of students asking him for comment on the Corporation's upcoming decision, Bok merely smiled a fixed smile and proceeded towards Massachusetts Hall, where more demonstrators blocked his entrance to the building. Smile undisturbed, he strolled across Mass Ave., where a University police car whisked him away over crowds who tried to block the car's exit. "It's just another day in the life of a university president" Bok quipped as the police guard shuffled him through...
What appears to be the most promising solution may also be the simplest: a cable of thick nylon strands would be strung across a 3.1-mile-wide passage near the glacier to block outbound icebergs. Similar barriers already help keep Greenland harbors free of drifting bergs. A feasibility study directed by Kollmeyer concluded that 20 men could put the cable in place within 40 days after the glacier's retreat is confirmed. Estimated cost: $31.1 million. Declares Don Ryan, a marine safety specialist for the Coast Guard: "So far, no one has suggested that our study is wrong...
...America. For too long, international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert on multinationals: "When...
...began to raise rates. Even though these rates remained far below commercial levels, disillusioned customers nonetheless started to complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter, a three-inch perch found only in those waters; that battle goes...