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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noisiest and most vocal lobbying group on the issue doesn't believe it needs to wait until everyone agrees. Not only does U.S. Term Limits plan a $20 million blitz for 2000 to elect a growing block of term limiters, the group is also going against term limiters who are hedging now. "We view it as a matter of personal integrity," says national director Paul Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Term Limits: The Ties That Bind Too Tightly | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Parishioners and residents of the neighborhood around the chapel complained last spring that the proposed height of the new building would block light from coming through the windows of the chapel. After much negotiation, Harvard compromised, revising the Knafel blueprints and leaving the chapel's stained glass windows open to light...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Owning the Glass | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...Take, for example, one of Harvard's most influential innovator-alums, Edwin Land. As an undergraduate, Land invented the polarizing filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...First" is located a block from Landsdowne Street. We take the T, get slightly lost and finally end up on that neon strip of Boston club-life, Landsdowne, surrounded by throngs of people...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo and Pamela S. Wasserstein, S | Title: Who's on First? Friday Night in Boston's Sketchiest | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...First" is located a block from Landsdowne Street. We take the T, get slightly lost and finally end up on that neon strip of Boston club-life, Landsdowne, surrounded by throngs of people...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: WHO'S ON | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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