Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manda Schossberger recorded a team-high 14 kills, two dink points and a team-leading four blocks. Cassell finished with 13 kills, one block and a team-high eight dinks...
...worst is over -- for now. A flood of buy orders propels an explosive rebound on the Kabutocho exchange. As each massive block of offered stock is snapped up, the trading floor erupts in applause. The Nikkei index makes a record gain of 2037.32 points...
Although Down East voters defeated two earlier proposals to close the plant, the antinuke campaign received a boost last year, when the U.S. Department of Energy identified Maine as a possible site of a radioactive waste dump. Now many residents fear that the only way to block the dump is to shut Maine Yankee, which stores its waste on site while sending half of its electricity out of state. Utility companies have shelled out $3 million for ads to save the facility, while antiplant forces have spent $500,000, making it the most expensive political campaign in Maine history...
...then came a new collapse. On Monday, Oct. 28, the Times industrials sank an additional 49 points. Then came Black Tuesday, the most devastating day of all. Three million shares were sold in the first half-hour, and often there were no takers at any price. One block of White Sewing Machine Co., which had been 48 a share a few months before and 11 the previous night, reportedly went for 1 because a bright messenger boy made that offer and there were no others...
...lives. The program's climax: the opening of the safe, a stunt that will inevitably be compared with TV Correspondent Geraldo Rivera's much ridiculed 1986 on-camera opening of Al Capone's empty "vault" in Chicago (a show also produced by Westgate). After filing unsuccessfully to block the broadcast, Florida Investor Michael Harris and four coplaintiffs are suing Westgate and other investors for $300 million, claiming they were cheated out of a share of the profits...