Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Carpenter's President John Hall, the new building will make the area more attractive. He said the Charles complex's shops are now "isolated by a two-and-one-half-block area" of snarled traffic and streets that seem unfriendly to pedestrians. "This southwest sector of the Square needs to be finished," he said...
Close by, the three other developers are cooperating to reshape the block housing Crate and Barrel, The Harvest Restaurant, and the Mt. Auburn St. Post Office...
Throughout the summer, antiwar demonstrators have used their bodies to block the movement of munitions at the naval weapons station in Concord, Calif. Last week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other...
...search for a new anticholesterol drug began in Japan. Akiro Endo, a scientist with the pharmaceutical firm Sankyo, wondered whether soil molds that kill cholesterol-containing bacteria might have evolved the ability to block cholesterol synthesis. In 1976, after testing 10,000 compounds, Endo found one that inhibited a key enzyme in the cholesterol-manufacturing process. Researchers at Merck soon discovered similar compounds, including lovastatin, but the finds would have remained research oddities without the Nobel-prizewinning work of UTHSCD's Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown...
...police arrested a man who was trying to sell a shotgun at a pawn shop in nearby Braddock. The gun had been stolen from a house where one of the rapes had taken place. The suspect: Dennis Foy, 22, is unemployed and lives with his family on the same block where one of the rapes occurred. His father, unemployed Steelworker Julius Foy, 57, had voluntarily given his fingerprints and had told police he would urge his son to do likewise. The younger Foy confessed, thus closing Homestead's latest little footnote to history and allowing it to go back...