Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larry Schember used a quick start to blaze to a 4.7 second victory in the 40-yd. dash. Schember was so keen to fly off the starting block, a camera click caused him to false start once before winning his race...
...fathers who ignore the dowry obligation. The woman retains ownership of her dowry-but the husband has all the rights to its use. In the words of one feminist critic, he "spends, invests, does with the interest as he pleases. The dowry puts the woman on the auction block." On the other hand, it can also provide a beleaguered wife with some measure of leverage in her marriage, since she gets back the original stake in the event of a divorce...
...city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal...
...cover the distance. But during his rookie year, Branch studied his teammate's hands as if they were the Rosetta Stone, and the result is the surest-catching fast man in football. Balancing the act is Tight End Dave Casper, a big (225 Ibs.) all-pro who can block and run as well as catch. Oakland is basically a passing team, but has adequate running led by former Colgate Star Mark van Eeghen and six-year Veteran Clarence Davis...
...government sorely needs; it must reduce the budget deficit in order to qualify for a $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. The transaction will still leave the government holding 51% of BP?at least if British courts let the Bank of England hang on to a 21.5% block of BP stock that it picked up two years ago in a bailout of cash-strapped Burmah Oil Co. (Burmah has petitioned to get the shares back...