Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American companies often take legal action to keep imported knock-offs of their products out of the U.S. But Lever Bros., the second largest American soapmaker, sued the Customs Service last week to block U.S. sales of goods produced by its sister company, London-based Lever Bros. Ltd. (Both are subsidiaries of Unilever, a British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped...
...mergers and buyouts worth nearly $130 billion have occurred so far this year, up from 2,755 deals worth about $100 billion during a comparable period of 1985. The feverish activity has created a climate in which corporate raiders can reap quick, huge profits simply by buying a block of stock in a company, driving up the share price and then selling the securities back to the firm or to a higher bidder...
...Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted, a block away the sign outside the Valley Bank effortlessly blinked out the message: WELCOME HOME HARRY HOUDINI HAPPY HALLOWEEN...
...black leaders in Boston and New York City have denounced the clinics as racist. In Chicago, 13 black clergymen are suing to block distribution of contraceptives at the DuSable High School clinic. Says the Rev. Hiram Crawford: "If these clinics are so good for black kids, why don't they put them in white areas? It's a form of genocide. Why do they so readily recommend abortion...
Harvard Conversation One: The Casual Pass Conversation. Participants are moving in opposite directions and are looking at the sidewalk with occasional upward glances for safety purposes. They inadvertantly recognize each other at a block apart, but the awkwardness of trying to express acknowledgment from this distance is too great. Both participants instantly stare back at the sidewalk in unconscious humiliation, feigning ignorance of the other's presence until the distance is closed to approximately 10 feet. At ten feet they can pretend to have just happened to look...