Word: block
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Only five days later, a 59-year-old homeless man was hit over the head with a brick by an unknown assailant and left to bleed in the Peabody Terrace visitor's parking lot. Peabody Terrace is an apartment complex located approximately a block away from Mather House...
...Cabot House residents were attacked in Cambridge Common at 2 a.m., and a group of undergraduates was threatened at knifepoint on Walker Street just a block from the Quad...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Jesse Helms is once again holding President Clinton's foreign policy hostage, this time by threatening to block any hearings on Clinton's presumptive nominee for U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Massachusetts Governor William Weld. "On social issues, Weld is as far left as you can go in the Republican party," reports TIME Boston bureau chief Sam Allis. "And certainly that drives Helms up a wall. But this is just Helms' opening shot. It means he wants something from the White House." Helms used his position as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair to hold up the Chemical Weapons treaty...
...find it difficult to pigeon-hole myself," Birmingham says. "I'm something of a hawk on balanced budgets, but on spending issues I'm rather progressive within the block of money that we have...
...budget agreement for highway improvement and construction by about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass joined in the fray, siding with the White House and twisting enough arms to defeat the amendment by a slim 216 - 214 margin. After the House passed the bill, Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing pact off the Senate floor if the changes were approved. "The President is not about to see all that hard work go down the drain, " White House spokesman Mike McCurry...