Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been said that Harvard admissions officers sometimes attempt to convince prospective freshmen that by coming to Harvard they'll have access to the best ice cream anywhere. The Square is certainly the ice cream capital of Massachusetts and maybe of the nation. With eight different stores within a three-block radius, on some days it's hard to walk down the street without knocking into someone carrying an oreo ice cream cone or one of those little plastic dishes that sport a mixed concoction of fabulous flavors and chewy, nutty, crunchy bits. Moreover, most of the ice cream stores sport...
...laws affecting them are subject to a special level of judicial scrutiny, as are laws affecting minorities and women. By a 6-to-3 vote the Supreme Court rejected this approach. But in the specific case before it, the court struck down a zoning decision of Cleburne, Texas, to block a group home for the retarded, finding that "irrational prejudice" was involved...
...benches, pretending to ignore the young latino drivers who are jiving with each other through open car windows. Just south on St. Nicholas Avenue at El Pablon Chino restaurant, the Chinese waiter serves fried Dominican sausage and chop suey; he speaks Spanish, but no English. Along one refurbished commercial block in Flushing, Asia is scrunched together: Korean beauty salon, Chinese hardware store, Pakistani-Indian spice and grocery store, Chinese wristwatch shop, Korean barber...
...national security wiretaps was not clear at the time. In a case involving two letters to the President that were brutally critical of a candidate for U.S. Attorney in North Carolina, the court held unanimously that the Constitution's guarantee of the right to "petition the Government" does not block a libel suit when such petitions are maliciously defamatory. Finally, a 6 to 2 majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice...
Caught in the middle of the leadership struggles are the congregations, who worship in settings ranging from clapboard country chapels in the Appalachians to the sprawling four-block complex of Criswell's 25,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas. A great number of these ordinary members at the S.B.C. meeting seemed to want to put an end to the internal struggle. Remarked Randy Newsome of Corbin, Va.: "I'm tired of hearing all this name calling. It's time to get on with our business." Al Miller of Chattanooga agreed that 99% of Southern Baptists "just want...