Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greens appeal to those distrustful of nuclear weapons and to those who support the almost romantic anti-technology stand of the party, which effectively used rallies and other mass-appeal tactics to block the construction of nuclear energy plants between 1977 and 1981. Conservation too remains a cornerstone of the Greens' projected "renaissance", in which windmills and solar power would supplant current "dirty" energy sources...
Bullets and rocks fly as truckers try to block new taxes...
...Justice Department charges that town officials have threatened and "physically harassed" prospective black residents. All but seven of Cicero's blacks work at Sportsman's Park Race Track and live on the grounds in cinder-block huts for the eight months the thoroughbreds are running. "I don't go far from the track," says Raymond Johnson, 31 a groom since 1976. "It's just a known fact: Cicero is Cicero, the same as it's always been-racist. You watch your step." In the fall of 1980, two black race-track families enrolled their children...
...backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women" have no interest or time to be maudlin. In this first novel, Naylor also demonstrates a rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first place. At the last, Naylor completes the haunting cycle, bringing...
Besides their obvious cruelty, such remarks needlessly block the possibility of compromise. Even in theaters where renovations leading to complete access would be costly or architecturally difficult, negotiations might well lead to a workable middle ground. At the Beacon Hill, for example, architects estimate that installing an elevator is prohibitively expensive, but handicapped groups say a chairlift next to the stairs would cost much less...