Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about how some 10,000 Falun Gong members had gathered in Beijing in April to protest being called a cult. But nobody had been arrested, and you thought little of it. The exercises got your circulation going, and meditation afterward helped dissipate frustrations from work and your crowded apartment block. China began to seem livable again...
...Windows desktop. Because AOL is the undisputed king of IM, Microsoft (along with a host of other IM providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection, is trying to block its rivals' advances. Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code change and counterchange that could prevent the adoption of standards and stunt this medium for years to come...
...renovation of Holden Chapel basement is one of the few summer construction projects that hit an unexpected stumbling block. When workers found human remains in the basement walls, construction ground to a halt...
...when I mentioned this assumption to my boss--that I would walk the block to Union Station and jump on the metro--she returned a look of comical disbelief...
...when I mentioned this assumption to my boss--that I would walk the block to Union Station and jump on the metro--she returned a look of comical disbelief...