Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educated or too successful to be touched by the problem." Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty was reporting his third cover story on drug abuse since 1981. He observes that "corporate antidrug programs and proposed mass testing of Government workers amount to a disturbing admission that all attempts to block the supply have failed...
...trip of a lifetime for them. Like other first timers in Las Vegas, they are dazzled, even by breakfast. The $1.99 buffet at a casino called Circus Circus stretches, at least in the recounting, "from here to that telephone pole" across the parking lot. "You had to walk a block," says Bob Johnson...
Seventeen Dartmouth College students who tried to block officials from removing an anti-apartheid shanty from the campus green have been found in violation of a conduct code but will not be punished, a college spokesman said yesterday...
...Administration that tried to cut funds for Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, state block grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and virtually every other federal education program draws lessons from the 65-page report that include the need for consistent school discipline policies, "hard work" on the part of students, rigorous textbooks, and regular homework. Translation: obey rules and do your homework. Nobody is disputing these values; but they should not be a substitute for instituting programs. And if this is the theory behind the practice, it seems a poor cover-up for cutting federally funded programs--especially those...
...Street in Harvard Square by Cambridge's toughest thug (by reputation): John Harvard himself. This incident left me minus my wallet and feeling vengeful. The story thus far: Friday night I parked at 67 Winthrop Street. Approaching the open spot I spied No Parking signs, but in the half-block between an alley and Kennedy Street, I inspected the posts carefully, and the coast looked clear. No signs, right or left, (This might have made me pause, I admit.) Fifteen minutes later my car was gone. The Cambridge police offered the (wrong) number of a towing outfit who gave...