Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, by night or day, the island's fun-and-games fulcrum is Lahaina (pronounced La-high-nah), a one-street, six-block town with the raffish aura of Virginia City cum Tijuana. Once the playground of Hawaiian royalty, and later in the 19th century a major port for whaling ships and China clippers, the clapboard community has been restored to a state of authentic tackiness. La haina boasts some 30 restaurants and about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS...
...urged the magazine to cooperate in modifying parts of the story that dealt with secret information. Claiming that the public needs details on the H-bomb in order to debate nuclear policy, the Progressive refused to budge. Government lawyers then asked U.S. District Judge Robert Warren in Milwaukee to block the article's publication...
Motorists are perplexed by the price differences that they notice from region to region, city to city and even block to block. The reasons for the discrepancies are complex and varied. Taxes can make a big difference. In Chicago myriad federal, state, county and sales taxes add up to about 17? per gal. (the federal tax alone is 4?). But in Houston levies total only 9?, and lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas...
More and more he withdrew from public life, seeking the obscurity of the old days. He suffered from a crippling writer's block, and complained of sterility and decay. Even the Nobel, awarded in 1957, was perceived as both an honor and an invasion of privacy. "I'm castrated!" he complained to a friend. The cry, like many of his statements, was pure theater. Yet as Lottman shows, Camus produced no more major work. He retreated to the sanctity of his home, to Francine and their twins, and was at work on a new novel, The First...
...powers to other governmental bodies while Parliament retains sovereignty. In this case, Parliament would permit the formation of popularly elected Scottish assembly with the power to determine spending priorities in areas such as education, housing, health and agriculture. The Assembly would have no taxing power, but would receive a block grant from Parliament. Parliament retains authority over economic and financial policies, regional trade and international representation, and has an all-important veto over any assembly action that "threatens the national interest...