Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads launched within hours certainly no more than days of each other. Such massive detonations would create enough dust to block the sun's light entailing catastrophic global consequences...
Three more stores will temporarily close by Saturday, in preparation for the demolition of most buildings on the Mass Ave block between Plympton and Linden Streets. Briggs and Briggs Music Shop, which is in a building owned by the Harvard Club of Boston, will be the only business on the block not affected by the construction...
...people scurried to stock up on bread and bottled water in case the fighting flared up again, they could see how much damage had been done. Gaping holes riddled the upper floors of apartment buildings, snapped trees littered the streets, and burned-out cars still smoldered on nearly every block. Shattered glass and chunks of masonry lay everywhere. At the American University Hospital, doctors raced to make room for the rush of wounded, while the morgues quickly filled up. An estimated 300 people died, and 1,000 were injured in the latest round of terror...
...Kippur War (one thing, at least, that Mr. Kurzman does not have the audacity to blame on Israel), and the Arab oil embargo in 1973. Suddenly deciding to cast its lot with its (newly rich) "Arab brethren." Black Africa broke off relations with Israel and began voting as a block with the Arabs and against Israel at the U.N. At the same time, the West Europeans, who have always put money ahead of morality, became markedly cooler in their relations with Israel, and attempted to steer a neutral course in the Arab-Israeli conflict...
Discussion of medical benefits, the one issue that might have provoked a major stumbling block, has been extended until December...