Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results of a survey conducted in July for H&R Block, a company which prepares income tax returns, indicates that the plan to allow parents to deduct a portion of college tuition costs from their federal income tax is not as popular as President Carter's plan to increase the number of middle-income families eligible for student grants and loans...
...Block survey, 14 per cent of those polled said they supported the tax credit plan if it is limited to families with incomes under $25,000. Twenty per cent favored giving the $1.5 billion directly to colleges to help them keep tuition costs down, while 16 per cent supported none of the plans, and 7 per cent had no opinion...
Ever since it joined the Community in 1973, Britain has had quarrels with the other eight members over everything from butter to oil policy. But this time Britain's foot dragging threatened to block agreement on some of the most crucial problems to face the Community in recent years. Though an effort was being made to mute some of the quarrels for the present, diplomats predicted that a major clash across the English Channel could soon break into the open...
...those suffering from Soviet repression. Despite U.S. protests, the Kremlin ruthlessly tried and sentenced Dissidents Anatoli Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. To back up his rhetoric, Carter presumably felt that he had to retaliate, and last week he canceled the sale of a computer to the U.S.S.R. and threatened to block transfers of advanced oil drilling equipment...
...with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider him a good guy who works for them...