Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the cruiser came three minutes later, it pulled to a stop in front of Bartley's, a block away from the bank. I waited for it to pull up, but the officer was talking to someone standing on the street. I looked across at the bank just as the man inside went from the inner part to the outer part, where the automatic tellers face the street...
...photograph of the departed First Lady into an ornamental fish pool. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacanang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away for 40 years, and never dreamed he would ever see the day when he would set foot in the palace...
...former Senator Jovito Salonga, 65. One of the panel's tasks will be the recovery of an estimated $2 billion in "hidden wealth" that the Marcos family has surreptitiously squirreled away in the U.S. and Switzerland. Salonga said he had already secured counsel in New York City to block the possible sale of more than $300 million in Manhattan properties allegedly owned by the Marcos family. "We will have no trouble recovering the assets here in the Philippines," Salonga said. "But overseas we will have to proceed according to local...
...House last fall passed a bill to strengthen the role of the Chairman, and the Senate Armed Services Committee is about to do likewise, despite howls of protest from the current service Chiefs. The Navy, traditionally the most independent of the services, is making an all-out blitz to block the legislation, which would "make a hash of our defense structure," according to outspoken Navy Secretary John Lehman. Nonetheless, Weinberger has signaled that he will not oppose the legislation, and passage of some version seems likely...
...across Sweden, which for decades has advertised itself as a model society largely devoid of the social strains that create such wrenching political violence. Stunned Swedes tossed red roses on the murder site; some placed candles on the sidewalk. By Saturday morning, the lines of mourners wound around the block. On a wall a banner was hung, reading: WHY MURDER A TRUE DEMOCRAT? "It is an almost unbelievable shock," said Ulf Adelsohn, leader of the conservative opposition in the country's one-house parliament. "Sweden will never be the same after this." Following an all-night meeting of key Swedish...