Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement struck with Havana last December, the U.S. can now deport as many as 2,746 Cubans at a rate of 100 a month. "We are afraid that these men being returned to Cuba will be tortured," said Dale Schwartz, an Atlanta attorney who has been fighting to block the deportation of the prisoners. "As for whether it will be a bloodbath, we don't know. There's really no way of monitoring that sort of thing in Cuba...
...marathon meetings with farm-state Senators of both parties and with Agriculture Secretary John Block, Dole worked out a compromise: Block, with President Reagan's approval, would sign a letter pledging the Administration to make "adequate" direct loans (amount unspecified) through the Farmers < Home Administration and also to ease the terms under which the Government will guarantee repayment of $650 million in loans from commercial banks to farmers. Boren and his allies reluctantly accepted this as the most that could be achieved immediately. But when Boren took the actual letter to a meeting of all 47 Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon...
...Greenmailer. One of Icahn's partners in the Phillips struggle is Saul Steinberg, 45, an expert in the fine art of greenmail. In that corporate maneuver, an investor buys up a large block of stock in a company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm's management will become frightened and buy the shares back at a higher price than the stockholders can get, just to get rid of the raider. Last summer, in such a ploy, Steinberg bought 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions. After a long battle with Disney management, he sold the stock...
Castron and linemates Chris Gunnarson and Benoit Quesnel broke into the Harvard zone with a three-on-two. The puck bounced across the slot. Brad Kwong went down to block Castron', shot, but Castron faked and angled...
Sullivan's recommendation to the full Historical Commission could block the granting of the demolition permits for six months...