Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather, he said, "the aim is to force takeover artists to be socially responsible" and block them from buying companies, laying off workers and then selling the companies piecemeal at big profits...
...hide their identities. In fact, they wore T shirts advertising themselves as members of Batallon Dignidad, or the Dignity Battalion. It is one of at least 20 paramilitary squads, with a total membership estimated at 7,000 to 10,000, that were founded last year ostensibly to help block a Yanqui invasion that Manuel Antonio Noriega insisted was imminent. According to Bush Administration officials, the squads were created with help from a small group of Cuban advisers in Panama and modeled on similar militias formed by Fidel Castro shortly after the Cuban revolution. In addition to Dignity, there...
...University officials are again involved in silencing dissident voices on the Board of Overseers--this time by working to block their election. University officials must remain neutral in this and all succeeding overseers elections. Bok and the administration should be welcoming the democracy of the Board rather than shutting out its different voices...
Along the way battalions of unarmed police halfheartedly tried to block the protesters' path. Again and again the police were pushed aside by students who sometimes reached out to shake the hands of the startled men. "The People's Police love the people," the marchers chanted, "and the people love the People's Police!" One protester playfully snatched an officer's hat, and another threw it about like a Frisbee...
Apparently, female bishops are the last straw for John Paul. Referring to the talks begun in 1982, he declared that the Anglican move to women priests and bishops "appears to pre-empt this study and effectively block the path to the mutual recognition of ministries." Though the Pope's opposition to women in the clergy is well known, this was his chilliest statement on the ecumenical implications...