Word: blocks
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This was evident last night when nearly 80 Cantabrigians gathered at the First Church of Cambridge to consider a proposal to modernize the Read Block--the decaying series of creamcolored buildings at the corner of Mass. Ave. and John F. Kennedy Street...
They ask students to vote on giving block grants to the house committees and on raising the minimum percentage of the council's budget dedicated to grants from 60 percent to 65 percent. The 4-3 decision of the executive board overturned a decision made Friday night in favor of holding the referenda in tandem with the elections...
Appelbaum had been expelled from the council for excessive absences and denied reinstatement at Friday's meeting. The decision not to reinstate was directly motivated by a desire to block his vote against the referendum, Appelbaum said...
...fact that he operates under the stately trees of Chicago's wealthy North Shore, or that he is only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with repeat customers," he explains. "With me, these kids can walk out of school and get good quality at good prices--$35 for an eighth [of an ounce...
...undermine a legal investigation into possible election-law violations. The accusations stem from the recent publication in a Moscow newspaper of what purports to be the transcript of a June 22 conversation between Chubais and other top campaign aides. In it, they discuss ways to slow and then possibly block criminal inquiries into the case of two Yeltsin election workers, detained as they left a government building, allegedly carrying more than half a million dollars in cash. The opposition-dominated Duma, or lower house of parliament, maintains that Yeltsin vastly exceeded the campaign-spending limits and that the dollars were...