Word: roadblocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plans for further work on the facility, including an expansion from its present capacity of 18,000, have run into a roadblock: Students and faculty have voted not to accept the donation earmarked for the stadium unless it is redesignated to pay for classroom space. That's not the kind of thing that would happen up the road in Charlottesville...
...robbers changed conveyances at a nearby shopping center and a few minutes later ran smack into a police roadblock. Two Nyack police officers who had stopped the lead vehicle, an orange U-Haul van, were shot dead by figures who leaped from the back of the van. Several of the suspects jumped into a second getaway car, a tan Honda. After it crashed three miles away, four people were arrested and all of the $1.6 million was recovered. A third car, a white Oldsmobile, sped away and was later found abandoned. Authorities began searching with bloodhounds and helicopters...
Establishing his legacy by improving student character--"the quality of life," in Bok's words to the masters--will be the hardest project Bok has yet undertaken. The president faces far more obstacles than Lowell did in building the then-revolutionary Houses. The roadblock to Lowell's success, was persuading the rest of the University of the wisdom of his vision--and then getting lots of cash. Bok's challenge, should he choose to pursue it, will be to translate his perceptions of civility into concrete programs, and to devise steps that promote the public-mindedness he seeks. As Gomes...
...Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy of the previous 16 months, during which demonstrating Arab youngsters were occasionally fired upon...
...organization became radicalized, began robbing banks to finance its operations and for a time espoused a cloudy blend of nationalism and Marxism. The organization's violent phase began in 1968 after a member of the Guardia Civil shot an ETA member who refused to stop at a roadblock. In retaliation ETA assassinated a hated police chief, and the deadly cycle began...