Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students were part of a group of about 70 students and 30 striking workers who gathered in front of Yale's Pierson-Sage Power Plant in a second attempt to block a fuel oil delivery...
Among students, support for the union seems to be growing; a rally last month in support of non-binding arbitration drew more than 400 students and workers, and last week more than 30 students were arrested when they and a group of strikers attempted to block a fuel oil truck from delivering to a power plant. But the students are not the ones who will decide when the strike will end. The university and the union have both said they are willing to hold out for as long as the strike lasts. But eventually there will have to be some...
...Carborundum stockholders and some arbitragers like Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Bros., it was a satisfying deal, to say the least. It was also a notable coup for the patrician Mellon family of Pittsburgh, which has for decades owned a large block of Carborundum stock...
After working on screenplays for eight James Bond films, I'm pleased by the suggestion that seeing one might help beat writer's block. Any thoughts about how to beat mine...
...weekend, negotiations resumed between shippers and the International Longshoremen's Association amid signs of an early settlement. Employers made a new wage offer; but the major stumbling block remained container shipping's threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file...