Word: block
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...story and directed the angle it would take. He explained that the premise of the article is that in general, both at Harvard and in the United States, race matters. In other words, he said, it is not uncommon to find that blacks generally do vote as a block. Indeed, 90 percent of blacks who voted, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. Like-wise, according to Braunstein, there is strong evidence to show that even at Harvard, race still matters. He pointed out that historically the houses have been segregated on the basis of race...
...Stock Exchange, but lifted Conrail by 20 percent. The merger will depend on approval from Conrail shareholders, who would receive $92.50 in cash and CSX stock for each share, and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. After approving two mega-mergers in as many years, the board is unlikely to block this one. Some layoffs are anticipated from the consolidation of the two operations, but neither company would provide any details. Terence Nelan
...comes Old Man Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...
...campaigns are tracking this voter so closely that they can measure the "persuadability" of her neighborhood, block by treelined block. Millions have already been spent hunting for her, with an intensity matched only by her immunity to the whole effort. Campaign consultants are stalking her, the conventions were staged for her, the speeches scripted for her, the ads aimed right at her. And because she is so different from the swing voter who shaped this nation for a generation, she has miniaturized its politics into a kitchen-table bargaining session over what it might take to help her get through...
...taped by Fergie's psychic, "Madame Vasso" Kortesis, in which the two use kitschy code: referring to Di as "Blondie" and Fergie's men by numbers. Her ex, Prince Andrew, is No. 2; lover-in-her-dreams-only John F. Kennedy Jr., No. 9. Then, Fergie stopped trying to block a book about her affair with toe-sucking John Bryan (No. 3). She couldn't face testifying in public. Fergie's next literary effort, two children's books, will be lucky to generate such press...