Word: block
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...Just one block away, at Bay Bank's two closed competitors, the mood is far different. Cambridge Trust keeps its all-night ATMsoutside, and Cambridge Savings has none at all. Their lobbies feature wood paneling, a hushed mood, and no television commercial. If Bay Bank is the Stop & Shop of Harvard Square banks these two resemble Cardullo...
...deploy far fewer than its planned 572 Pershings and cruise missiles. Among those who favor such a move are Lawrence Eagleburger, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and Richard Burt, who finally won confirmation last week as Assistant Secretary for European Affairs after a long fight by conservative Senators to block his appointment...
...supplied papers in the name of Andrew Dimanso, the alias he was supposed to use in Italy. When the pair landed in Rome, they were met by the CIA's "M" and a cadre of American and Italian intelligence agents. Lombino was hustled away to a hotel a block from the U.S. embassy. Twice during the next day, he met with Franca Musi, a Red Brigades courier who had been captured two weeks earlier in Rome. The Italians thought that Musi, whose family had underworld connections, might give valuable information to Lombino, but she claimed only to know that...
...from the political front in El Salvador has been slightly more heartening. After months of complicated maneuvering, members of the country's freely elected Constituent Assembly have succeeded in neutralizing that body's ultra-rightist President, Roberto d'Aubuisson, 39. Long accused of being a stumbling block to social and economic reform, D'Aubuisson has been foiled in recent at tempts to fill key government posts with members of his ARENA party...
...period's final moments, Blair stopped the most serius threat of the evening to his shutout when Bruin wingers Joe Kuzsnest and John McEvoy (no relation to Harvard, goalie Dickie) skated in on a two-on-zero break Blair dove just before the buzzer to block the pass to McEvoy with his stick...