Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial-services industry -- a system that has worked exceedingly well for more than 50 years." Within a year, the Fed plans to consider whether to allow banks to venture deeper into Wall Street's business by selling stocks as well as bonds. The securities industry may try to block the Fed in court, although previous challenges have failed...
...amounts to a retirement plan to defray the cost of caring for the primates during their golden years. While subject to experiments, the chimps live alone in huts, but when their brief working lives are over, they are gathered into colonies of eight or ten in in-door-outdoor block houses that give them room to romp. Says foundation official Jorg Eichberg: "They lead a very normal life...
Schools were closed and police cordoned off a 130-block area as city leaders sought to restore calm in the predominantly Black Overtown neighborhood...
Police fired tear gas at the crowd and in turn were pelted by rocks and bottles. They then sealed off a several block area and shots could be heard from within...
Police guarded a 130-block area of Overtown yesterday, warning motorists who passed through that they could not be guaranteed protection. Six schools were closed and some buses were rerouted, but authorities refused to declare an evening curfew...