Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most large debts. The members had been stung by the angry letters and editorials about their recent pay hike from $44,600 to $57,500. Proposed by the Ford Administration and supported by President Carter, it went into effect automatically on February 20 because Congress made no attempt to block it. This procedure had been set up precisely to avoid a situation under which Congress would directly be raising its own pay-but the lack of a vote angered the public as much as a vote might have...
...right to have a voice in the investment policies of their companies. In neighboring Belgium, which just had its first rail strike in 17 years, a series of five 24-hour walkouts is scheduled to dramatize labor objections to rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
Such charges stir hurricanes of protest on the rigs. Says Pat Byler, production foreman at Shell's Vermilion Block 22 field, six miles off Louisiana: "My blood pressure goes up when I hear them talk about withholding." Nonetheless, gasmen privately concede that investigators from Washington will uncover a few examples of withholding...
Hoffman said the "Israeli form of excess legalism" is a stumbling block in establishing peace. The negotiators cannot "leave loopholes through which whole armies can march," he added...
...Cincinnati obscenity prosecution in a way that does outrageous violence to press freedom. A full-page ad in the New York Times, signed by, among others, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean, wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times to its own editorial dissent. Dissident has an honored meaning these days, and belongs to those who, like Andrei Sakharov, at risk to their own freedom boldly challenge the Soviet Union to live...