Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price ceiling to $2.03-higher than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move to freeze prices at the current ceiling-they began their own talk fest. Said Louisiana Democrat Russell Long: "A filibuster is an act of piracy. So if there's going to be a filibuster, I'm going to be a pirate too.* With...
...dampness, the humidity. The Senate is a place of great moods. It can shift quickly, very quickly." And dramatically. The last time the Senate was kept awake all night by an obstinate filibusterer was in 1964, when Robert Byrd talked for 14 hours straight in an unsuccessful attempt to block passage of a civil rights bill...
...negotiators, observed that Panama is holding a national plebiscite on the agreement Oct. 23; its advocates there doubtless are making the most favorable interpretation possible of the documents to help get them approved. But in practical terms, he told the Senators, differing interpretations cannot block U.S. efforts to protect the canal. Said he: "We are under no obligation to consult with or seek approval from any other nation or international body before acting to maintain the neutrality of the canal." More loftily, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance argued that the treaties should be approved because "the American people want...
...share. Thus Ball maintains his clout in the banks' affairs. In an eleventh-hour effort to wrench control from Ball, Mills came up with another buyer, Hugh Culverhouse, Mills' law partner, who offered $18.50 a share. Despite Culverhouse's higher bid, the court refused to block the Ball-engineered sale of the stock, and last month the Federal Reserve gave its reluctant blessing to the deal...
...Short Eyes' title character who gives the film its thrust. "Short Eyes" is prison slang for child molester, the one kind of felon all the others deplore, and when Prisoner Clark Davis (Bruce Davison) arrives at the Tombs, the moral and emotional tensions of the cell block are brought into powerful relief. Like Eugene O'Neill's Iceman, Davis is a crackerjack theatrical device; thanks to Davison's finely shaded performance, he is also the most disturbing character in a film full of blistered souls...