Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge Police notified Harvard last week that shuttle buses to the Quad may no longer stop at the corner of Garden St. and Mass Ave because they block traffic while picking up passengers, said Frank Rose, superintendent of central services in the Facilities Maintenance Department and head of the shuttle bus system...
...call up a trade bill for House floor debate in May, and the Senate is working on a similar schedule. In the interest of getting something on the books, the Democrats, who control both chambers, are backing away from the protectionist provisions that caused Free-Trader Reagan to block previous bills...
Harvard officials attempted to convince Congressmen that without mandatory retirement older professors would block up the tenure system, denying younger academic talent opportunities for lifetime posts, says Shattuck...
Right now Stone is Hollywood's hot new guy. He is even entertaining the improbable idea of a Platoon TV series. But don't expect Stone to direct Indiana Jones III. Says Stanley Weiser: "Oliver's been around the block ten times and won't be seduced by money. He's not an easy lay." Stone and his second wife, Elizabeth, 37, look the family-album picture of swank domesticity in their Santa Monica home. They swore off drugs a few years ago, and now seem addicted only to each other and their little son Sean. "Success and Sean have...
...Senate can afford to reject the raises, since the increases cannot be stopped unless the House also votes to block them. The House will do nothing of the sort. Speaker Jim Wright's strategy of passive nonresistance has bipartisan support. Says Republican Leader Robert Michel: "There is no law requiring a vote." The relevant House committees have not even called for hearings on the raises...