Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, a block away, another Kennedy claimed victory. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II defeated business executive Glenn Fiscus...
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the student said she found the note in her mailbox early last Wednedesday morning. It was written in block letters and contained only one reference to her stance on abortion. The rest of the letter consisted of "a personal, hostile attack," interspersed with strong expletives and physical threats, she said. Those who had read the letter said that the final sentence was, "I'm going to get you, and I promise you that...
Dartmouth (5-1), the other leading contender for the crown, beat Columbia, 2-1, Saturday, in what was arguably the most challenging game left on its schedule. The Big Green faces Brown Saturday, its final stumbling block en route to a share of the league crown...
...also said that if he returned to the Senatein a Bush administration, he would help Bush whenhe thought it was deserved and try to block himwhen he thought the president was wrong...
...executives who bought Nu-kote also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year...