Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students block a South African diplomat from leaving the Lowell House Junior Common Room where he had been speaking. Police break through the blockade, injuring some students, but do not arrest the activists. Protesters later face disciplinary proceedings...
...they could pay $11.25 a share to top Texas Air's bid of $10. But since Lorenzo's company owned at least 51% of Eastern's voting stock, Texas Air controlled enough votes to ensure the $676 million takeover. A federal court in Miami rejected an employee suit to block the deal...
...about to damage its case, Meese went to the White House Friday morning, while the briefings were in session, to lay out his fears to the President. They were joined by White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan and Poindexter. Poindexter's head may already have been on the block; Regan had been talking, perhaps inadvertently, about the National Security Adviser's departure as if it were an accomplished fact...
...options that did not preclude investment." But GM Chairman Smith, while acknowledging the AT&T talks, denied that he had ever considered unloading his computer subsidiary. "EDS isn't for sale," he told the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press. "We have never had it on the block or anything like that...
...Manila that unnamed politicians, assumed to be allied with former President Ferdinand Marcos, Enrile and elements in the military, planned to reconvene illegally the national assembly that Aquino disbanded after her accession. As word of the presumed minicoup spread, armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos moved to block it, ordering his commanders to "disregard" any orders that might come from the Defense Ministry. At Ramos' direction, government troops in trucks and armored vehicles lined the street leading to the presidential palace in Manila and secured key radio and television stations...