Word: blockings
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According to the Cambridge Historical Society, the street, originally called Chestnut St., was already renamed once in 1875 for Dr. Sylvanus Plympton, who owned a house that used to occupy the block between Plympton St. and Linden...
...finding it instead a symbolic disaster. The running of the torch in London Sunday was marred by attempts by human rights protesters to extinguish its fire, but on Monday in Paris the ceremony became an outright farce: security officials doused the flame twice in the face of demonstrations to block its progress, and wound up driving it to the end-of-day handoff ceremony at Charléty Stadium on the edge of the city when the tormented relay was canceled at mid-course. As the torch moves on to San Francisco and Buenos Aires before heading back to Africa...
...French-Dutch Air France-KLM was the only bidder left in an auction that began 15 months ago when Italy's Economy Ministry put its 49.9% of the debt-saddled company on the auction block. Air France Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta pulled out after Alitalia union representatives arrived at the table with brand new 11th hour terms after all sides had worked for weeks on a standing framework that included layoffs of around 2,100 and the closing of Alitalia's cargo division. The talks, of course, collapsed...
...very complicated, very elaborate negotiation," New Zealand is on track to become, on April 7, the first developed nation to sign a free-trade pact with the market the whole world is courting. "It's a bit like getting the first date with the best-looking girl on the block," says Stuart Ferguson, chairman of the New Zealand-China Trade Association: in this case, ahead of suitors Australia, Norway and India. Details are a closely held secret, but the deal is expected to give Kiwis gradual relief not only from tariffs but from the red tape that bedevils their efforts...
...black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed...