Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police estimated that approximately 1,500 people including workers, clergy, labor leaders and students took part in the five-block march which began at the New Haven city hall Tuesday...
...referendum deals with increasing the percentage of the council's $120,000 budget that it allocates to student groups from 63 percent to 65 percent, and permanently allocating five percent of the council's budget for block grants to the houses. While we definitely feel that Harvard's student groups should be supported, it is premature to call for these significant increases. The reason for this is that only one and a half months ago did the council vote to increase its spending to the current 63 percent, an all time high. In other words, there simply hasn't been...
...second asks students to vote on whether the council should make mandatory block grants to the house committees...
Many on the council were disappointed by the close executive board decision, accusing their opponents of trying to block the issue...
...comparison between the two firms." One thing hasn't changed, however: the Kott connection. Several major JB Oxford shareholders have been closely associated with Kott or with stocks pushed through Kott-connected boiler rooms. Felix Oeri, a Swiss financier who is Oxford's biggest stockholder, bought a large block of Hariston stock a few years ago after it was recommended to him by Kott. (Oeri says he's lost money on the stock.) Arabella, a Luxembourg company that is Oxford's second-ranking stockholder, is currently the controlling shareholder of Hariston...