Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kahouns feel helpless at what has happened to turn their world upside down. One of the elder Kahoun's daughters, Elizabeth, 38, a nursing-home aide, became so angry that she placed telephone calls to both President Reagan and Agriculture Secretary John Block. She never got past secretaries. One in Block's office told her, "Honey, there's not enough money in the U.S. Treasury to bail out all the country's farmers." Predicts Elizabeth: "If and when the farm goes for sale--and I think it's when--Dad will probably die and Mom will go bonkers...
...fight over that proposal is likely to make the battle over credit guarantees look like a warm-up skirmish. To Stockman and Secretary of Agriculture John Block, the current farm troubles are a sign that 52 years of heavy Government involvement in agriculture have led both farmers and taxpayers to a dead end. Rural prosperity, they believe, can be rebuilt in the long run only by a long-overdue and surely painful transition to a leaner system that forces farmers to compete with little Government aid in markets at home and abroad. Says Block: "This country can no longer afford...
...which opponents reply in effect that what the country really cannot afford is Block's farm program. In this view, Uncle Sam has made himself a virtual financial partner of American farmers--a bossy and often capricious partner, to be sure, but by now an indispensable one who must not be allowed to abandon farmers to their fate. Indeed, while the Administration tries to get the Government out of agriculture, some farmers and their allies are taking the diametrically opposite approach. One bill proposed by Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa would increase farm price supports, by about...
...Chevy Chase, Md, native blocked one shot, giving him five for the year. With 33 minutes of action under his belt, Mohler is averaging a team-high one block per every five and a half minutes played...
...which makes it illegal to have care windows that block more than 65 percent of the outside light, was designed to protect police officers who must peer into shaded windows, to help identify hit-and-run drivers and to allow eye contact between drivers at intersections...