Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington one saw the scenario for this kind of confrontation settle into rigidity. It goes like this: Police form ranks to block off a street; demonstrators (in ranks) march up the street until they are a few yards in front of the police; there is a three-minute pause on both sides; the police then advance and lob tear gas canisters; the demonstrators retreat (with cries of "Walk! Walk!"): the demonstrators gradually regroup; and then the whole process repeats itself. This exact sequence of events repeats over and over again until the sheer strength of the gas gradually drives everybody...
Actually, Nixon's humiliation over two consecutive defeats was largely self-inflicted. The ease with which Warren Burger won confirmation as Chief Justice belies Administration claims that most Democrats and Republican liberals would automatically team up to block any Southern judicial conservative. At the time of the Burger appointment, Nixon said that to avoid controversy over Supreme Court nominees he would name men whose credentials were beyond challenge. He also declared that he would never use his appointment power to achieve a racial, religious or geographical balance on the court. He later not only abandoned that in favor...
What forced action on the railroad crisis was the end of the 37-day moratorium that Congress had approved in March to block a strike threat by 6,000 intransigent sheet-metal workers-who constitute only 1% of all rail employees but have the power to halt the railroads. Last week, as the end of the moratorium approached and no agreement had been reached between railroad management and the workers, Congress reluctantly turned to an unusual solution. By legislative action, it imposed what would be the terms of the unions' next two-year contract-an action that some labor...
...indictments were processed routinely. Moments after they were handed up, the documents went to the office of Court Clerk Elbert Wagner for assignment to a judge. There, an assistant stamped them with a file number, then moved to a row of cubbyholes and drew a sealed block of cards from the one marked CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. The cards, arranged face down, each bore the name of one of the district's ten active judges. After freeing the top card with a letter opener, the clerk found before him the name of the trial judge whom he had just selected...
...group originally requested a permit from the city to block off Harvard Square during one of the slower traffic periods in the afternoon. "The city adamantly refused to issue any such permit." Popek explained. "They felt that there was no good reason for any traffic snarls...