Word: block
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Sixty-three survey respondents in the class are now consultants of one kind or another at a median salary of $24,000 a year. They represent the largest block of respondents going into a single industry...
...documents also suggest the judge helped block appeal motions by the Rosenbergs and by their co-defendant, Morton Sobell, who received a 30-year sentence, although Kaufman was no longer associated with the case...
...conservative, Buckley's theme line is: "We must get the government off our backs and out of our pockets." He caused a flutter just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas City by making himself available for the presidential nomination, a foredoomed maneuver seen as an effort to block Jerry Ford for a while and keep alive the chances of Conservative Ronald Reagan. For Buckley, the ploy was characteristically unorthodox; although 40% of the state's voters live in New York City, he initially refused to support federal aid for the municipality during its financial crisis-a point...
...other section of the country." Adds Florida's Senator Chiles: "A lot of new Southern political talent is being liberated now. I don't think the South still needs the kind of power the old committee chairmen had. When they had it, they used it defensively to try to block civil rights legislation, for instance, and to get a little pork. The system is changing. We don't have to block anything now. We've been integrated...
...among the South's White House members. Some note happily that black Representatives Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young often choose to sit in the House chamber with white Southern friends rather than with Northern liberals or blacks. Others laugh about how some white Southern votes are now cast to block antibusing amendments backed by Michigan and Massachusetts Congressmen. Most of the South's congressional Democrats point with particular pride to the fact that on the 1975 roll call for a seven-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, their vote in favor was 52 to 26 in the House...