Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mita had confidently predicted at least 37%. When De Mita finally emerged on election night, he was shaken. Said he: "We believe the problems of government now are more difficult, more complex. The vote seems to have expressed a judgment of protest, or condemnation." Around the corner, a block away at the Communists' modern, red stucco headquarters, there were scenes of jubilation. As a youthful crowd of 2,000 gathered under umbrellas in a pelting rain, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer declared, "We shook the tree. Others are gathering the fruit, but no matter; it is the beginning...
...possible problem is that the therapy comes too late. By the time AD is diagnosed, too many brain cells may have died for the process to be reversed. "If we can come up with better diagnostic procedures, it might be possible to block the progress of AD chemotherapeutically in the next five years." says Gibbs of NIH One promising method is a new scanning process called PET (positron emission tomography), which measures glucose metabolism in living cells. PET-scan studies by Dr. David Kuhl of U.C.L.A., among others, have revealed drastic decreases in metabolism in the brains of AD patients...
...largely to a device called a "legislative veto." Under this controversial maneuver, Congress drafts a statute broadly but incorporates a provision calling for review of the Executive Branch's implementation of the law. The provision permits one or both houses of Congress-or even a single committee-to block any actions with which they disagree. Since 1932 one or more such provisions have been made part of 210 laws dealing with everything from foreign arms sales to rules about morticians' sales pitches. Explains Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, a critic of the legislative veto: "Instead of going through...
Other companies have found a wide variety of operations that can be done better underground. For H&R Block, the caves are a safe place to keep tons of tax forms. The U.S. Postal Service's Philatelic Order Fulfillment Branch, with 48 employees, processes 1,200 requests daily from its hole in the ground. It likes the security advantages and the fact that in the low-humidity atmosphere the $100 million worth of stamps it keeps there do not stick together...
...third year and ask the Government for, say, 80% to 95% of the grain that the land would have produced. The farmer can then sell that wheat for the highest price he can get. The national average this year: $3.50 per bu. Last week Agriculture Secretary John R. Block offered a plan to extend PIK to the 1984 harvest in order to make further reductions in the price-depressing wheat surplus...