Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, Kevin Futch decided he wanted to circulate a petition denouncing a correctional officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk, where he is an inmate. Futch thought the officer was giving the best cells in his cell-block primarily to white inmates...
...long, low buildings of Concord, with their barred doors, cinder-block walls, and linoleum floors, couldn't be more different from the cozy and chaotic PLAP office. Phones ring incessantly over the classical music playing on the stereo, and office manager Daria M. Aumand's dog pads about, greeting everyone at the door...
...Yale hockey game (January 31, 7:30 p.m., Bright Center) is all but sold out. A block of seats is being held for undergraduates. Coupon number seven can be exchanged for a reserved seat starting Monday, January 13. A limit of two per undergraduate will be enforced. Tickets are seven dollars full price. Bring coupon book and i.d. to the basement of Harvard Hall to pick up tickets. Harvard Ticket Office
Agriculture Secretary John Block announced that the President would sign the farm bill, despite earlier threats to veto it. Although Congress provided $52 billion in overall subsidies to farmers over the next three years, twice the amount Reagan had originally wanted, the farm bill nevertheless will allow Block gradually to lower guaranteed minimum prices to producers of wheat, corn and other basic commodities. The Administration hopes this feature will force farmers to become more competitive food exporters. Overseas sales of U.S. agricultural products declined from $44 billion in 1981 to $31 billion in 1985, largely because farmers could get more...
...evening last week, on a midtown Manhattan block brimming with Christmas shoppers and commuters, Castellano, 70, and his henchman Thomas Belotti, 45, pulled to the curb in a black Lincoln limousine, evidently on their way to a steak house. Three men waiting nearby pulled semiautomatic weapons from under their trench coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull...