Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marzilli says that his organization is not a "monolithic block of Cambridge brahmins," but he admits that the CCA has not "tried as hard as we should to meet [blue collar ethnics] on their
...still command masses of young zealots who believe in Khomeini's promise to "march to Jerusalem" by way of Iraq. But the seemingly endless fighting is producing disillusionment among others. Says a factory manager whose plant is virtually closed for lack of raw materials: "A grocer down the block has lost three sons in the war. It would kill him if he had to accept the reality that they died in vain, that there is no march to Jerusalem...
...might adopt emergency anti- takeover laws, as Minnesota and North Carolina did recently when local companies were pursued by outsiders. In Washington State, any threat to Boeing (total employment: 121,500) raises deep emotions. Moreover, Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge said last week that the Pentagon might try to block Pickens if his raid is perceived as a threat to Boeing's military output...
Times were that Southern governors stood in the doorways of their state universities to block federal troops which were escorting Black students inside. To those who decried the Southern lawmakers as racists, they responded that they were merely constitutionalists defending their states' sovereignty as the framers intended...
...Washington, analysts and policymakers alike have yet to figure out what to make of Gorbachev or how to deal with him. Americans had long since grown used to a Soviet adversary who seemed most comfortable sitting on a block of ice, scowling and saying nyet in response to U.S. initiatives. Now the ice is melting. The Kremlin has been making diplomatic and arms-control proposals faster than the White House can reject them. Having met twice with Ronald Reagan, Gorbachev has, for the moment at least, managed to seize control of the timing and agenda for a possible third encounter...