Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confrontational tactics were also diverging from CEOC's mission. Organizers worried that EFZ's increasingly public presence, including rallies and marches directed against Cambridge's government and citizens, might lead to a loss of funding for CEOC, which gets some block grants from the government...
...Historical Commission has recently approved a steaming bagel, four feet wide, that will hang over the new Finagle-a-Bagel in the Read Block building, over which the Commission already has jurisdiction...
...their shrimp to the U.S. even if their nets lack escape hatches for endangered turtles? Yes. Can Massachusetts refuse to buy products from companies that do business in Myanmar? No. Do American corporations get an illegal export subsidy by setting up legal offshore tax shelters? Yes. Can the French block our hormone-fed beef? No. Rule breakers are punished--in France's case by a hike in the tariffs on Roquefort cheese, among other goodies...
...dismissing the event as trying to determine how to mark it in a way that's meaningful to them. So a lot of people are making low-key, local plans, like neighbors and single dads Bruce Rave and Charlie O'Dowd of Albuquerque, N.M., who are planning a minimalist block party. "We'll set up a tent with a kerosene heater for the old people and probably me too," says Rave, 45. There will be meat cooking on propane grills--no electricity at this Y2K-themed party--and plenty of soccer, football, basketball and Hula Hoops. "Kids and adults playing...
...would not be surprised to hear that someone who took a position contrary to the mayor's in a late-night discussion of how a Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano fight would turn out had awakened the next morning to find a municipal water-treatment plant being built on his block...