Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson spikers rebounded against their cross-town rivals in the following game, scoring three straight points to take a 10-9 lead. A successful block by 6-ft., 4-in. Engineer Paul Daly tied the contest...
Harvard regained the lead at 12-11, but good placement by the Engineers and another Daly block paved the way for a 15-12 M.I.T. victory. Not until the final play of the game did more than two points separate the two squads...
...USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block as Secretary of Agriculture. As farmers struggle with depressed prices and exorbitant interest rates, the new Secretary will have his work cut out for him. While Lyng has a more low-key management style than his outgoing predecessor, he has said that he and Block share the same philosophy about...
...President Reagan, who thinks that it can work to a limited extent for the U.S. Government. The fiscal 1987 budget, which Reagan presents to Congress this week, was expected to propose selling many Government-owned operations to private companies. Among the things that may be put on the block are Dulles Airport, near Washington, the National Weather Service satellites, the Bonneville Power Administration in the Northwest, and the Navy's petroleum reserves in California and Wyoming...
...most important thing about the Herlihyshas been their enthusiasm," said Block. "I thinkit would be a crime for a master to be aloof inany...