Word: blowing
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Many voters criticized the referendum as a blow to rent control, saying that it would turn Cambridge into a "little Boston" and calling it "a scam by the realtors to get their hands on rent-control property...
Residents said they questioned the accuracy of figures used by 1-2-3 to show the economic benefits of the proposition and said they feared the referendum would be a blow to the city's much-touted diversity...
...group, four of whom were wearing ski masks, burst into the station at about 2:15 p.m. and threatened to "blow [a student's] head off," according to a Cambridge police report...
...casting department at Columbia Pictures. Guber quickly became chief of production and, by the time he left in 1976, his credits included The Way We Were and Shampoo. Peters, 44, an Angeleno who spent a year in reform school, broke into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...
...announcement was a blow to the Central American peace process and the Aug. 7 agreements that called for disbanding the Contras in exchange for moves toward democratization in Nicaragua...