Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Neighborhood residents also tried unsuccessfully to block St. Louis' efforts to get a permit from the city Board of Zoning Appeal in October, he said...
...council unanimously condemned Scheme Z two weeks ago, and Cambridge state representatives have said that they intend to file legislation that could block the project's funding...
...first reaction is ecstasy. He turns his parents' bed into a trampoline, devours mountains of ice cream, looks at the forbidden photos in Playboy ("No clothes on anybody. Sickening"). His excitement wanes with the daylight, however, all the more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time they arrive...
...stumbling block is how to get the food to the Soviet Union. The planes and ships that would normally be available are being used to airlift troops and equipment to the Persian Gulf. Mindful that much of the foreign aid sent to Armenia after the 1988 earthquake ended up on the black market, U.S. officials are also wondering how to ensure that food gets to the people who need it. Says one: "We would like to handle the distribution ourselves." As far as some Soviets are concerned, that would be just fine. As Victor Shinkaretsky, a Russian Deputy...
...WOULDN'T criticize the sincerity of people who bought a Bloomies care-package. No, my criticism has more to do with the numbing of our senses to the seriousness of what is going on "over there." The G.I. care-packages are not Bloomies' display of "New Kids on the Block" paraphernalia, to be sold to over-zealous preteens wanting to emulate their idols. Operation Desert Shield is the real thing, and it isn't for sale...