Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration official explained last week that the directive was designed to give the Government a simple way to block disclosure without charging offenders with criminal violations of secrecy laws. But critics of the directive regard the restrictions as a potentially dangerous undermining of the ability and willingness of officials to discuss what they learned in Government after they leave it and thus to enlighten public debate on future issues. "This is as close as an American Government has come to implementing an Official Secrets Act," argues Allan Adler, a counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union...
...will probably manage only to make herself appear more racist. If she is taken seriously in the election--and in a city so easily spurred by racism, there's a good chance she will be--she will take votes from Epton before she cuts into Washington's Black voting block...
...parliamentary debate in Cape Town, after which the government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha tried to prevent both its critics and the press from discussing the matter any further. Its grounds: all information concerning South African purchases of oil, which are in contravention of a world embargo designed to block such sales, is a state secret...
...Sloan, creator of the modern GM: produce a separate and distinct automobile for every price category. Since Chrysler can no longer afford the $1 billion it costs to build an entirely new model, it will eventually have to use its basic model, the K-car, as the building block for each of its four car sizes: subcompact, compact, intermediate and full size. Thus buyers have to be re-educated not to mind that their luxurious Chrysler may have started out as a lowly Plymouth...
...loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His expression changes quickly, precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self-conscious metaphor for the man's own meticulous, minimal art. -By William A. Henry...