Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, they met with one stumbling block...
...Sophomore quarterback] Rich [Linden] got the ball to his receivers no matter what--[and on the reverse] I had linemen getting way downfield to block for me," Patterson said...
...evidence of the struggle for points, the second game started with six sideouts before Brown scored the first point. Harvard then took control and built up a 6-3 lead with a key block by Jellison and co-captain Elissa Hart and then a kill by junior Melissa Forcum...
...same day that AT&T replaced faltering CEO Robert Allen with former Hughes Electronics boss C. Michael Armstrong, the phone giant put its staggering $14 billion Universal Card business on the block. AT&T terrorized the credit-card industry and started a trend by introducing, with spectacular results, the no-fee-for-life Universal Card in 1990. But the lack of a fee made AT&T dependent on interest charges that many customers refused to rack up. According to Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research, holders of as many as 60% of AT&T's 18 million Universal Cards...
...yesterday, about 20 protesters gathered at a street corner one block away from the Main Building, for a quiet demonstration against China's policies towards Tibet. Organized by several Tibetan groups, the mini-rally attracted nearly as many reporters as protesters. But as the sun dropped in the sky by late afternoon, more and more people joined the swelling crowd...