Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Carpenter's President John Hall, the new building will make the area more attractive. He said the Charles complex's shops are now "isolated by a two-and-one-half-block area" of snarled traffic and streets that seem unfriendly to pedestrians. "This southwest sector of the Square needs to be finished," he said...
Close by, the three other developers are cooperating to reshape the block housing Crate and Barrel, The Harvest Restaurant, and the Mt. Auburn St. Post Office...
...Number 11 [Schossberger] was the main reason why they beat us," Wellseley Coach Rhonda Kolarik said. "She can hit, block, serve and play at the backline. She's a great overall player...
...dioramas, stick-outs and wraparound environments of Red Grooms have been jiggling and creaking their way to glory on the fourth floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum through the summer, and there are still queues round the block. Few American artists are more genuinely popular than this 50-year-old from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch...
That chaos is everywhere apparent. Though Cubans have to pay only about 10% of their salary for rent -- often barely $10 a month -- they must spend twice as much just to buy an imported deck of playing cards. Block-long lines of people wait nine hours through the night and six hours more to get into the Centro department store, still commonly known by its prerevolutionary name, Sears, where government surplus items are sold at extortionate prices ($2 for a small bar of chocolate). "We have some good news and some bad news," runs the local joke. "The bad news...