Word: block
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...