Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing...
Many other universities already license their name and insignia. Stanford, for example, regulates its name, the block "S" symbol with and without a tree, the Stanford seal and the name "Cardinal" when it refers to the school, said Maria L. Gladfelter, an administrator at the institution's licensing office. She said the program raised $257,000 last year...
...block with 10 of our closest friends and we end up in the Quad, it won't be that bad. We'll all hang out together. It won't even matter that we didn't want to live there in the first place," I heard one person say emphatically to six people standing near the Hallmark rack...
Simpson writes that the poets could not escape their pain, even after they had completed a substantial work. Berryman and Schwartz both experienced writer's block, and often the two would panic when their work had gotten a bad review, she writes...
Lindow's bugs were to be the first genetically altered bacteria released into the environment. Although there was strong evidence that the microbes were benign, biologists at Berkeley and the NIH had failed to consider fully the experiment's environmental impact. The oversight allowed Rifkin to sue to block the experiment. The courts agreed, and, thanks to Rifkin, testing was postponed for three years while the NIH, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to draw up rules under which genetically engineered products would move from the lab to the field...