Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined in a leftist attack on a moderate Catholic group. The boy's death sent thousands of students out of overcrowded Bologna University, whose 60,000 volatile undergraduates face a bleak future in Italy's recession-bound economy. For three days, the students occupied a 20-block commercial area, manhandling citizens, looting stores and burning cars in an orgy of youthful anarchism that was unprecedented, even in Italy...
That may be an academic point. Local authorities can still block the Concorde from most airports. Moreover a strong threat arose last week that no more Concordes would ever be built. After a select committee of Parliament added up the staggering losses that the British government was likely to take on the present fleet (as much as $340 million), Aero space Minister Gerald Kaufman said that no more Concordes would be constructed unless there were profitable orders-which seems most unlikely...
...willing to sacrifice the freedom of speech of their fellow scientists. Harvard junior faculty members jeopardized their careers if they objected to the tenured colleagues' research. Ursula Goodenough, associate professor of Biology, dropped out of the controversy, saying, "... I didn't want to lay my head on this particular block ... all of us were feeling very pressured...
...into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...
...proliferating questions about the project now make it appear to be more of a boondoggle than a boon to the community. Although much damage to the community has already been done by the excavation of a city block, still more serious damage, in the form of noise and air pollution, could result from the plant's operation. If the BRA really has the community's interest in mind, it should reject the plans, and Harvard should consider an alternative use for the enormous hole it has dug in Mission Hill...