Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larger share of the world chocolate market. One contender: Zurich-based Jacobs Suchard, which has acquired 18.7% of Rowntree's stock. But the more powerful bidder is giant Nestle, which has offered $3.9 billion for all outstanding shares. Rowntree Chairman Kenneth Dixon is asking the British government to help block the takeover...
...deadly marine impact of nitrogen, mainly from fertilizer runoff, sewage and animal wastes, has been recognized for years. But the E.D.F. study is the first to pinpoint acid rain as an important source of coastal pollution. Any overload of nitrogen feeds marine algae, which bloom into vast growths that block sunlight and deplete the oxygen supply, smothering fish and crustaceans. The E.D.F. reports that 25% of the nitrogen contaminating Chesapeake Bay is the result of acid rain; investigators found similar nitrogen levels in a preliminary study of the coastal waters of New York and North Carolina. The proposed solution: tighter...
Politicians from Governor John Sununu on down have lined up to denounce the manual and block its distribution. Says Strafford County Commissioner Paul Dumont: "We let those guys out of the closet ten years ago. I think we should put them back in." He and his fellow commissioners voted to freeze spending for the county's Prenatal Family Planning Clinic, which paid for the development of the manual during three years of work by community groups, schools and youth organizations...
...concept of what the term means. The author has a right to his or her opinion; indeed, I am still forming mine. But Harvard employees are not worker drones in need of salvation, and we welcome the opportunity to investigate both sides of this complicated issue. Sharon E. Block Marketing Staff Assistant Harvard School of Public Health
...days later in Naples, Italy, a Ford Fiesta disintegrated in a fiery explosion next to a USO club one block from the docks used by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Inside, shielded by their basement location, sailors from the U.S. Navy frigate Paul were throwing a party. Five people outside the club were killed, including U.S. Navy Petty Officer Angela Santos, 21, who was stationed in Naples. Fifteen were wounded...