Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking them to set up a commission to lure the team back. Despite the delirium, cold reality soon set in when city officials reminded everyone that the Mets have a right to block any team from moving into the city. And at a time when both the Mets and Yankees are making noises about moving to greener swampland facilities as New Jersey dangles a Meadowlands site for a possible new stadium, the city is unlikely to do anything to antagonize those team's owners...
Following a defensive stop, Gelman found sophomore forward Sarah Russell on the low block. Russell turned and hit a sweet lefty jump hook off the glass, drawing a foul and silencing the 2,000 Dartmouth fans in attendance...
This hadn't occurred to me until last week, when I was talking to a television reporter about the controversy over the rating system that will be used to offer parents guidance about which programs they may want to block. The television industry, which is in the enviable position of writing its own warning label, has resisted the content-based system favored by virtually everybody else, presumably on the theory that warnings of violent or suggestive content could scare off viewers and advertisers...
Even without those improvements, I told the reporter, I thought content-based ratings might be specific enough to serve some purpose. Liberals could block violence, and conservatives could block sex; and in a desperate attempt to see plenty of both, their children might visit each other's homes often enough to make a start on getting along with each other when they grow...
...then, I could envision a younger version of Bennett Weber trying to block, say, programs that contained strong language and instead doing something that caused the set to transmit nothing but cooking shows. "Do something!" he says, turning to the child he's trying to protect. That child is Jeffrey at 14, who says, with a sly grin, "Don't worry, Pop. I'll take care...