Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of a move with two partners-Pattillo, a construction company president, and John Stembler, a Georgia movie-theater chain owner-to gain majority control of the bank. Lance's entrepreneurial acumen helped to almost double the bank's assets. However, the prospect of his large block of stock going on sale, plus his own departure and the bank's falling profits, have caused the stock's market value to drop to $14 a share. If at year's end Lance is forced to sell his stock at its present price, he will lose about...
...Palestinian recognition of Israel and Israeli support for a Palestinian state; this would break a procedural block and allow a separate Palestinian delegation at renewed Geneva talks...
Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...
...strike was called at midnight Monday. Next morning, Protestant thugs in Belfast turned out to terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead Corrigan, leader of the Women's Peace Movement, appeared to wage a counterprotest, they tore up her pacifist placards. Among the opponents of the strike who were subjected to "U.D.A. persuasion" was Thomas Passmore, the leader of the Protestant Orange Order in Belfast. Passmore, whose aged father had been shot...
...invaded annually on the Memorial Day weekend by the first wave of summer vacationers eager to enjoy New Hampshire's bays and beaches. This year invasion came early to Seabrook. For five years, environmentalists and others opposed to atomic power plants have been trying to block construction by the state's Public Service Co. of two 1.15 million-kilowatt nuclear reactors near Seabrook. Last week they took their protests into the streets. With the precision of a well-trained army, some 2,000 protesters, carrying backpacks and water bottles, occupied the construction site and set up a tent...