Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of their death, the couple had decided to marry, according to some friends and relatives. Early in the summer, Mohammed al Fayed cleared out the Windsor villa in France and put 40,000 items on the auction block at Sotheby's. His family needed the extra space, al Fayed said, but some royal watchers breathlessly speculated that he was preparing a retreat for his son and the Princess of Wales. Few things would have proved more noisome to the royals than Diana, with an Egyptian husband and father-in-law, spending time in the former residence of another exile...
This July, Cambridge Savings Bank, which owns the historic Read Block property which houses the Tasty, told all remaining tenants they would have to move out by October...
While negotiations continue between the Tasty and the bank about the possibility of the eatery returning to Read Block in 1999, Haddad said he is also searching the Square for a new location "be it temporary or full time depending on how things go with the bank." He said he has found few vacancies...
When Read Block reopens, the bank will use the third floor for its own offices and will lease the lower two floors to retail stores...
...Wallace rout of the British, TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand says the landmark shift is a lot closer to states' rights than revolution. "Years from now, you might be arguing that this was the first domino toward independence," he says. "But this is a lot more like block grants than anything else. There's an office in London that distributes $14 billion pounds to Scotland every year, that has to decide how much goes where. Now, the Scottish parliament will do that for itself...