Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo Bakke [July 10]! When I fill out my college applications this fall. I firmly resolve not to fill in that absurd and archaic block marked Ethnic Group. Did I miss something in science class or do brains really come in two colors -black and white...
Other measures being reviewed would hurt more. Carter is being pressed to block the sale to Russia of advanced technology, such as a $144 million plant for making oil-drilling bits that the Soviets badly need to develop their petroleum industry. Tass, the Soviet press agency, could also be prevented from buying a $7 million computerized communications system it wants for coverage of the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
...lobbyists: a message of support from President Carter, who called ERA "a bedrock" of opportunity for women and minorities. It was also reported that during an hour-long phone call, Betty Ford had persuaded a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Harold Sawyer of Michigan, not to block the bill. Led by Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, a group of ERA supporters later met with Sawyer to congratulate him on his decision...
...monarch was pressing his own view that the time has come to ignore Begin and concentrate on what he sees as the real danger to the Middle East: recent Soviet penetration along the Red Sea and in the Horn of Africa, which threatens to encircle the Arabian oilfields and block the Suez Canal...
...make for cheerful reading. New Government estimates published last week forecast a U.S. inflation rate of more than 7% for 1978 and lower economic expansion than previously expected (see cover). Not only was Congress still stalled on the President's energy package, but the Senate has threatened to block any draconian attempts by the Administration to impose levies or quotas on oil imports. In short, Carter will arrive in Bonn with a somewhat weakened U.S. bargaining hand...