Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...card had been revoked. Lastly, she filled out the bill and asked me to add my address and phone number to the bottom of the register in order to make sure I really wasn't a deadbeat and to prevent me from absconding with the engine block that served as my claim check...
...ceremonial groundbreaking shovel. It doesn't look special from the picture, but I could tell it was made from the highest quality plywood and aluminum. Or I could have a ladies' walnut gavel for only $22.50, with my choice of a $10 gavel stand or a 4-inch sounding block for $24. (Men's stand and gavel cost extra...
Another potential impediment to McDonald's growth was the resistance of neighbors. Residents of elite communities, among them Martha's Vineyard and Manhattan's Upper East Side, staged bitter fights to block the building of local McDonald's outlets. Stung by such criticism, McDonald's has tried to make its presence more welcome in recent years by toning down its garish yellow arches and designing restaurants that insinuate themselves into the neighborhood. On the Mississippi River in St. Louis, a McDonald's is housed in a floating reproduction of an 1880s side-wheeler, complete with brass-trimmed chandeliers...
...hand, they expressed the Administration's "profound disapproval" of Japanese trading practices in the sensitive semiconductor field. On the other, they were an integral part of the Administration's strategy to address the country's ghastly trade deficit. The semiconductor measures were also intended, ironically enough, to help block a rising protectionist tide in the U.S. Congress, but they could just as easily have the opposite effect...
...colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds. It was cut up and eaten by the worshipers. No doubt when and if a major Van Gogh self-portrait comes on the block, there will be a distribution of marzipan ears...