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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next play, Yohe sent all his receivers streaking down the field, and tossed a beautiful ball to a wide-open Sorbara. Pusateri laid a great block to spring Sorbara, and the senior sprinted untouched into the endzone to give Harvard a 21-17 lead late in the third quarter...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...developers said they expect to attract a mix of young professionals and others who want the convenience of easy access to Cambridge and Boston. "There are 15,000 people who work within a six-block radius of the building site," Davis said...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: $50M East Cambridge Complex Gets Start | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

...years in business. Because of newly arrived competitors, his daily tape rentals have dropped from 130 to about 75. A survey of 1,200 video stores conducted in January by the trade publication Video Store showed that 28% of the merchants were dueling with another store on the same block. The competition has forced down prices from an average $4.75 for an overnight rental two years ago to $2.40 today, and 99 cents specials are commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Video Merchants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan, who campaigned in Maryland to defeat her, called Mikulski a "wily liberal." He was only half right. Liberal, certainly. Mikulski, a former social worker, got her start in politics almost 20 years ago by organizing a coalition of blacks and ethnics to block construction of a 16- lane highway that would have destroyed their homes. In five years on the Baltimore city council and five terms in Congress, she has defined her special constituencies as blue-collar workers, women, children and the aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW FACES IN THE SENATE | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...adviser in Port Washington, N.Y. "Well, there are so many ifs, buts and whens in it that it's going to bring our profession tremendous business for a long time." One sign of the trend: Shearson Lehman Bros. last week advised its clients to buy stock in H. & R. Block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaring into Tax Reform | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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