Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to work with the freshmen," O'Connell says. "I've been around the block, as they...
...statements to investigators, withholding evidence, willfully disobeying subpoenas, approving the payment of substantial sums of "hush money" to those who might implicate him, using the CIA, FBI, IRS and other federal agencies to discredit those who opposed him politically, using his power as president to cover his crimes and block investigations and directly lying to the American people...
Harvard will attempt to block a measure that would change dramatically the zoning controls in Harvard Square, a University official said last week...
...last time Harvard exercised its right to require a seven-vote majority was in 1984, when it teamed with MIT to block a linkage proposal aimed at forcing developers to build more affordable housing in Cambridge...
...winding down. "This is the kind of stuff you send to refugees, not an army with a fighting future," conceded a State Department official. Still, the Reagan Administration won an important concession from traditional opponents of the contras: House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas promised in writing not to block future consideration of military aid if the peace effort falls apart...