Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dianne Dunfey, one spokesperson for the protesters, said demonstrators planned to be back at the plant this morning to block the gates when workers reported for work...
...fill the gap, CBS tried to recapture some of the drama of the preceding week. When China Central Television announced that it would be shutting off its satellite-transmission facility on Wednesday, CBS booked the last block of , time, hoping to recreate a scene similar to the one a few days earlier, when viewers saw Chinese officials ordering Rather off the air. Sure enough, that night's CBS EVENING NEWS showed Rather at his anchor desk in New York City, interviewing Beijing correspondent John Sheahan. When Sheahan's picture suddenly disappeared from the screen, Rather abruptly...
...doubt the archaeological value of either the Rose or the Roman baths. But the stumbling block in preservation efforts is money. In granting a temporary reprieve to the Rose, the government had to pledge as much as $1.65 million to the building's developers to cover the costs of delays in construction. And officials admit that revoking permission to build at Huggin Hill could run the government's liability as high as $40 million...
Just since November, more than 30 top officials at the Defense Department, the Internal Revenue Service and NASA have announced their resignations rather than abide by tough new ethics laws designed to block federal employees from using their jobs as a fast track to riches in the private sector. Taken aback by the departures and complaints by defense contractors, Congress last week voted to delay the new measures for 60 days...
Giving is making a personal commitment to an institution. And people should not support an institution that would not have tolerated them or treated them equally. To do so would be to block out history. No one can afford to ignore the record of discrimination at this academic stronghold, nor let the solutions of the present overshadow memories of a problematic past...