Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TYPICAL DAY in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, life to an outsider would seem pretty uneventful. There's the Junior League brunch to attend if you're deemed part of the "in" crowd, and possibly a get-together with the neighbors down he block. All in all though, things aren't too lively, and residents often become defensive about "big city life." Hazelhurst comparatively seems pretty dull. Yet Hazelhurst, Mississippi, like Faulkner's Yacknapatapha County and the backwoods settings of Eudora Welty's short stories, has a character and quality uniquely its own. And although its citizens and its history give the facade...
...number of nuclear missiles does not necessarily lead to greater stability, and they objected to mixing bombers in the same negotiating pot with ballistic missiles. But Cohen had an important hole card: if he could persuade a core group of moderate Senators to join with him, they could block the funding for the new MX missile...
...real news came almost as an afterthought. House Speaker Tip O'Neill was winding down a routine press conference last week when he offhandedly announced that he would block a sweeping reform of the immigration laws from even reaching a vote. "The His-panics," O'Neill declared, "have said that it's the worst thing that has ever confronted them...
...trying to get a coherent intervention. Let's take the G.M.-Toyota example. Presumably, how you handle G.M. Toyota is going to have something to do with the trade position of the United States and effect on negotiations. Should the U.S. negotiator talk to the person who might block the deal for anti-trust reasons? And vice versa. There's an intimate relationship between one policy and the other, and I think that raises the question: should we have a coherent policy...
...superintendent of Atlanta's schools in 1973, the first year that a court-ordered desegregation program went into effect, only 30% of students were reading at the national norm. Says Crim: "We had to focus on reading. Handling the language arts is perhaps the most fundamental building block to the whole educational program. If you can't read, write, speak and listen, you won't do anything else well." In June, Crim announced that the average student in kindergarten through tenth grade was reading at the national level; math achievement was slightly above the norm. The dropout...