Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only stumbling block is the Harvard Trademark Office, which does not approve of associating Harvard with an alcoholic beverage...
...take weeks or even months of sifting through the hundreds of tons of debris left by the blast. Investigators are trying to reassemble the mangled wreckage of automobiles destroyed by the bomb, and have asked the public to turn in any unusual bits of metal found in a three-block radius of the embassy. "This is going to take perspiration rather than inspiration," says Mutiso. "The investigators have settled in for the long haul...
Still, you've got to give the man credit for returning to his roots. Comedian David Spade, who was coincidentally shooting a film called Lost and Found only a block away at the same time as Seinfeld's gig, remarked, "It's nice that someone still cares about stand-up and doesn't just see it as a stepping-stone." The audience cared too. "It wasn't really awesome," said a young woman who waited outside for six hours in brutal heat to get into the show. "But it was more like...
...Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south has stripped the country virtually to the bone. When the fighting is going badly for its side, the government tries to starve the rebels into submission by cutting off food aid. The rebel fighters routinely take food from civilians to sustain themselves or block supplies from reaching the territory of their factional rivals. And the aid community stands accused of sheer pusillanimity, docilely submitting to the strictures of the Sudanese government rather than pushing through the assistance the country urgently needs. Even the U.S. government, pledged to prevent such needlessly recurring famines, has "screwed...
...Italian restaurant near his home on London's tony Eaton Square. The place "used to be hot in the '60s," noted Lloyd Webber (who writes a food column for the Daily Telegraph); "the food isn't very good." He picked the restaurant, though, because it's just a block away from the first of two theater openings he had to attend that day: a school production of Oliver!, featuring his two young sons, Alistair and Billy, in the chorus...