Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is in the set, the cable hookup or the decoder box. If the latter two, the cable operator must provide service; some operators are quick in responding to calls, others are not. Thieves tapping ineptly into a cable system can ruin cable reception for everyone on a block...
...Committee passed a standby rationing proposal, more stringent measures, though desirable, are politically unfeasible. The failure of Carter's 1977 energy proposals and the imminent watering-down if not complete destruction of his windfall tax proposals serve as ample evidence that the strong oil lobby within Congress can effectively block progressive energy measures. Voters must begin to pressure congressmen to pull away from the oil lobby...
...Michael Blumenthal and finally to several other aides. Moreover, the economic advisers are unable to work well together. Kahn does not get along with his council's director, Barry Bosworth, and has set up his own little bureaucracy separate from the wage and price guidelines program a block away. Blumenthal has been squabbling with Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. At a Cabinet meeting last month, the Treasury Secretary accused Strauss of having worked out a sweetheart deal with the textile industry that limits imports, in exchange for its support of the Tokyo Round of tariff reductions. Strauss claims his actions...
...municipal committee forbade the posting of wall posters anywhere in the city except on the 100-yd. stretch of Changan Avenue at Xidan Street that has become known as democracy wall. A People's Daily editorial, which accompanied the edict, warned against "gatherings and parades that block traffic, attacks on the party, government and military organs," and "other acts of rumor-mongering and troublemaking...
...last fiscal year, and it is roughly four times larger than Brascan. To help finance the takeover, Brascan would have to borrow $700 million from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which by no small coincidence is also Woolworth's largest lending bank worldwide. In a suit to block the bid, Woolworth charged that Canadian Imperial would never lend such a sum to a company of Brascan's size unless the bank had confidential information about Woolworth's bright future prospects and was sharing the inside dope with Brascan...