Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration, however, could hardly cast all of the blame on Congress. Agriculture Secretary John Block last month endorsed the plan to pay farmers for cutting their output. The Senate passed the bill. Then the Administration changed its mind, arguing that Congress had reneged on a promise to freeze price supports for other crops. Said Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, who backed the plan: "Apparently, when you make a deal with the Secretary, it does not mean as much as it once...
...populace of 500,000 that the city would soon be swallowed up by the fighting. The Arafat loyalists set up artillery and rocket launchers in a grove of orange trees near the waterfront quarter and fired at the troops advancing on Baddawi, a dreary, ramshackle warren of cinder-block houses that normally is home to 10,000 people...
...Down the block, a sign warns that this is a "Block Watch Neighborhood. We report all suspicious activity to the New Haven Police." Someone vandalized the sign...
...AGREE WITH the majority opinion that Syria is the main stumbling block to foreign troop withdrawal from Lebanon. We concur that Syria has little interest in promoting a settlement. And we too believe that the United States should home the Marines as soon as the Lebanese government can assume adequate control over the country...
...Slavin P 6-0 180 Jr. Wynoste, PA 43 Paul Splveck TB 5-0 100 Jr. Wallingford, PA 79 John Swesney OT 6-3 236 Sr. W. Caldwell, NJ 19 Tom Thiviarge WB 6-0 186 Jr. Ponton, MI 97 Rosselvet Thompson OG 5-7 196 Sr. Little Block, AR 39 Mike Tjarksen WB 6-0 186 Se. N. Muskegon, MI 20 Brad Tounsaint DB 5-10 170 Se. Les Altos, CA 9 Ray Vagel DB 5-11 196 Se. Ladyard, CT 93 Kevin Walsh DT 6-3 240 Jr. Pelham, NY 99 Kyle Wardon...