Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thick black smoke began pouring into the surrounding area from the burning building, forcing police and fire officials to block off area traffic...
That must be a tense, excit-place. Stupak, a high school dropout, landed in Las Vegas in 1972. He cruised along in the town's minor leagues with Vegas World until 1989, when the Sahara, just a block away, quadrupled the size of its sign and moved it closer to Stupak's casino, tempting his customers away. Stupak wanted the one-upman's revenge. The Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the towers in Tokyo and Sydney, Australia, were all profitmaking monuments, he noted. A similar structure--but bigger, of course--would be his answer to modern Vegas' edifice complex...
...Philadelphia police lieutenant Frank Powell, attempting to blame members of the radical group MOVE for setting the blaze that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed a block of homes, on May 13, 1995. The blaze began when Powell dropped a bomb containing C-4 explosive on the roof of MOVE's rowhouse on the fourth day of the group's standoff with police...
...resegregation is indeed the wave of the future, then the future can be glimpsed in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk won federal court approval of a return to neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block the new plan because it would immediately render 10 elementary schools, many of them serving housing projects, 100% black. Sociologist David Armor, retained as an expert witness by the school board, predicted that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance...
...commitment ceremony to be a private and discreet affair. On a misty day last October, 80 of Crane's closest friends gathered at a botanical garden in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With a Presbyterian minister presiding, Crane, 31, a high school music director, and his lover of four years, Randy Block, 36, affirmed their love and exchanged gold rings. Almost immediately the religious right directed its ire at Crane with the pinpoint accuracy of a laser-guided missile...