Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says Nikolai Ivanov, an airport border-control officer, between bounces. "Any other reason is irrelevant." Says Kiril Korchev, a road laborer: "The communists tricked us. But we're going to stop them. The people...
...easy in hindsight, the petty politicking of the race for council president and vice president thankfully behind us, to say that the referenda on increased grants to student groups and block grants to house committees should have been held at the same time as the election to garner better turnout. All too easy, perhaps, but entirely appropriate. While we strongly opposed the referendum, we oppose even more strongly the actions of those four council executives who delayed the referendum in order to quash the student voice. Higher turnout would have resulted from a change in the voting date, allowing...
...commission considered the Cambridge Savings Bank's proposal to modernize Read Block, the four buildings at the corner of Mass. Ave. and JFK Street which house the Tasty and the former Wursthaus Restaurant...
...hearing was one of several meetings the commission has held to discuss whether Read Block can be declared a historical landmark...
...bank proposes to demolish two of the four buildings that compose the Read Block and to replace them with small retail and bank offices, according to the project's architect, W. Easley Hammer...