Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accounts, as well as $50,000 worth of stock in Tong II Enterprises, a profit-making import company that Moon controlled. Convicted with him was his top financial aide, Takeru Kamiyama, 40, who was charged with helping the evangelist prepare false tax returns to conceal the income, attempting to block the subsequent Government investigation by submitting phony backdated documents, and lying to a grand jury...
...merely a disagreement on principles that pushed the adversaries into a head-on military clash last week; a combination of errors, miscalculations and inflexibility on both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade...
Including the potential to enrage the public. During the early stages of the U.S. 1 block, traffic was strung out for up to 19 miles, and resorts in the Keys began reporting a drop of as much as 40% in tourist business. Key West symbolically seceded from the Union, and local officials begged Washington to call a halt. The only change, however, has been less strict checking to eliminate most of the delay...
Adapted from Fellini's film 8½, "Nine" stars a film director with a creative block. Guido Contini (Raul Julia) is a world-renowned movie mogul whose last three movies have been flops. He now has a contract for a new film and a producer, Liliane La Fleur (Liliane Monte-vecchi), who in her barbed tyrannical needling could pass muster as Erich von Stroheim in drag...
...only meaning of the musical is revealed in this opening scene and thereafter reiterated. Guido has been a lady-killer whose prey have turned on him and become his predators. The more devastating revelation follows: the playgoer could not care less about Guide's creative block, or the key women in his life...