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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ratings for Fox's Sunday shows have been averaging between 3% and 6% of the national audience, well below most network fare but still respectable. Fox's two-hour block on Saturday night, however, has languished in the dismal 2% range. Three of the four current Saturday shows will be scrapped next month to make room for two newcomers: Family Double Dare, a nighttime version of the hit children's game show, and The Dirty Dozen, a wartime series based on the movie. Also in the works is a new version of Charlie's Angels, for which Producer Aaron Spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Little Network That Might | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...course, there are the up-and-coming, the new guys on the block, who are just dying to overthrow the elites...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Sweet Sixteen | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

Best Shot:Like some mean kid on the block, Peter Ciavaglia drew Michigan State goalie Jason Muzzatti out of his house last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...teams first came South, alterations have seemed slight. The late writer Francis Stann of the late newspaper the Washington Star once asked the failing Babe Ruth in his camel-hair coat what ( he remembered about Al Lang Stadium in St. Pete. Motioning toward an old hotel a full city block beyond the right-field fence, Ruth rasped, "The day I hit the West Coast Inn." "Wow!" said Stann. "Pretty good belt." "But don't forget," Ruth added, "the park was a block back toward this way then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan is more concerned with communism down the block than ignorance in his own home. Instead of sending young men and women off to fight the next Vietnam, he should make sure they know what the first one was. In the long run, education--because it teaches cooperation--is a more potent weapon than a gun or missile...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ding-Dong Dead | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

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