Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church a few blocks away from Beatty's jury-rigged attic office in Easton's Tidewater Inn, some of the nation's finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than...
...policymaking. Says he: "We're secondhand dealers in ideas." Yet even liberals in Washington acknowledge, sometimes ruefully, that Heritage's mostly young analysts (the staff of 105 includes 53 professionals) are extremely effective at getting across their point of view. "That feisty new kid on the conservative block" is the kudo offered by one Heritage fan. His name: Ronald Reagan...
...negative," says one of David Stockman's men down at OMB. "The Democrats are all fighting to avoid change. They cannot get increases in funds, so they are all battling to block the cuts proposed. We have a system for inertia." That...
Hussein was alluding to the stubborn efforts by Syrian President Hafez Assad to block the session. Though Assad failed, he ordered several Syrian-based factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the proceedings. The meeting thus deepened divisions within the troubled organization, with both pro-Arafat and anti-Arafat sides claiming the cause of a Palestinian homeland as their own. Whether or not the rift hardens into a permanent split, the internecine conflict promises to weaken further the organization that has come to represent the hopes of 4 million Palestinians...
When William Ziff put 24 profitable periodicals on the block last month, there was no shortage of eager bidders. Ziff-Davis, a subsidiary of the Ziff Corp., was offering for sale twelve consumer magazines and twelve technical and travel publications, most of them leaders in their markets. Among those interested were the New York Times Co., Time Inc., Hearst, CBS and ABC. The massive sell-off was accomplished in just 24 hours last week, when CBS purchased the consumer group for $362.5 million, and Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch bought the trade publications for $350 million. Although the cash...