Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cincinnati, nervous depositors formed lines up to a block long and even slept on sidewalks overnight while waiting to withdraw their savings last week. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste finally stepped in and declared a three- day bank holiday for 71 savings and loan associations, probably the most extensive closure of U.S. financial institutions since the Great Depression. In Memphis, board of education officials were anxiously checking their investments. Elsewhere, communities from Beaumont, Texas, to Pompano Beach, Fla., were badly shaken...
Just as Andropov assumed Brezhnev's stonewalling position on the Euromissiles, Gorbachev has inherited Chernenko's adamancy on the central arms-control issue of today: space weapons and strategic defenses. The Soviets are just as determined to block the U.S.'s Star Wars program as the Reagan Administration is determined to see that it goes forward. There is no reason to expect that Gorbachev will be more yielding than Chernenko. In his inaugural speech last week, Gorbachev stressed his opposition to "the development of ever new weapons systems, be it in space or on earth...
...term Mob lawyer is totally unfair," says James La Rossa, a prominent litigator who is counseling one of the nine men accused last month of being members of a national Mafia governing board. If no man is above the law, says Michael Rovell of Chicago's Jenner & Block, "the corollary is that no man should be below the law either. Somebody has to represent these people." But, acknowledges La Rossa, "there are lawyers who are climbing into bed with mobsters and doing things they shouldn't do." Some law- enforcement officials are suspicious when a large percentage of a lawyer...
Outside hitters Sean Doyle and Scott Alpert pounded through the visitors' block, and soon the spikers were...
...stall is sometimes good in basketball and the presidency. When the heat was on the White House to placate farmers and Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad was pleading in the Oval Office for a 30-day extension for farm credit sign-ups, the President, Secretary of Agriculture John Block and Regan all melted. Branstad announced the decision on the White House steps to huzzahs from the farmers. A couple of hours later the beleaguered Senate Majority Leader, Robert Dole, rose in fury on the Hill and rocketed his displeasure downtown. So, accused Dole, the hold-the-line troops...