Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a majority in the making, it wasn't apparent at the Board's last meeting in June. There, HRAAA's supporters couldn't muster enough support to block passage of the Young Report, a controversial set of proposals to give the University more control over future overseer elections...
...there was a majority in the making, it wasn't apparent at the Board's last meeting in June. There, HRAAA's supporters couldn't muster enough support to block passage of the Young Report, a controversial set of proposals to give the University more control over future overseer elections...
...there was a majority in the making, it wasn't apparent at the Board's last meeting in June. There, HRAAA's supporters couldn't muster enough support to block passage of the Young Report, a controversial set of proposals to give the University more control over future overseer elections...
City officials, who have been managing to tear down only about 250 derelict structures a month, initially cast a blind eye on the copycat barn razings that followed. Events took on the atmosphere of a block party in some neighborhoods. But then a scuffle broke out on Chatham Street, after house busters blocked the road with debris from the makeshift crack house and brothel they tore down. The Motor City demolition derby has now resulted in five arrests for wrecking without a permit -- and a healthy increase in the number of houses the city is clearing away...
...health fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...