Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition to Warnke's nomination by the hawks on the Hill has stirred echoes of the recent fight the conservatives put up to block Carter's choice of Theodore Sorensen to head the CIA. Bul Warnke has the strong backing of the liberals, who failed to rally to the support of Sorensen. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston began leading the fight for Warnke's confirmation in the Senate, and Hubert Humphrey declared that the nominee "will be a tough negotiator. He's no patsy. He's no softy...
...with his no-tie, good-ole-boy image, had a major role in handing out jobs in the Administration, which gives him a built-in constituency in the White House power game. He has already emerged as Carter's toughest political operative, the man who can smooth or block the way of people seeking favors from the Administration. Powell, who has been an able and amiable spokesman for Carter, now has a mini-empire in the West Wing that includes press relations, photography and speechwriting...
...addition of a block of foreign DNA to an organism will ordinarily decrease its adaptation to its natural habit and hence its probability of spreading...
...with current net assets of $140 million. Although he is not one for spartan living himself -he buys a new Rolls-Royce every year and maintains a yacht in Majorca -Laker keeps his business operation lean. A staff of fewer than 20 works out of a modest ten-room block at London's Gatwick Airport, where the boss's own office measures a mere 10 ft. by 12ft...
...early election," explained a Cabinet official, "and no party wants to see that happen again." Still-with a careful distinction between government and party-the Christian Democrats dutifully monopolized the final debate making 13 last-ditch speeches against the passage of the bill, then made an unsuccessful attempt to block it with a motion of unconstitutionality...