Word: block
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...expected to generate revenues of $27.5 billion over the next five years. Of that amount, 20% will be given out in discretionary block grants to states and cities to update and repair urban mass-transit systems. The remaining 80%, earmarked for highways, would be parceled out to Governors based on state population and miles of interstate highway. The program requires states to match 10% of the Federal Government's mass-transit grant and 20% of its highway contribution. Said the President in his regular Saturday radio address: "We simply cannot allow this magnificent system to deteriorate beyond repair...
...year-old national airline, El Al, which has long been plagued by deficits and labor unrest, voted to dissolve the company. Professors at Tel Aviv University were on strike, Foreign Ministry employees were threatening to stage a walkout, and truck drivers, angry about new taxes, were trying to block the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...hectic love life, or a screenwriting stint in Hollywood at the end of World War II, or a subcareer as visiting professor at Stanford-quite explains the paucity of her output (one novel and fewer than 30 stories). All her life Katherine Anne fought a mysterious writer's block. Jailed for protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, she failed to convert that experience into literature in 1927, and failed again for the 25th anniversary. It was not until 1977 that a small book emerged; The Never-Ending Wrong was her last publication. The Nazis she met in Berlin...
...bleeding, breathing person, but nonetheless the best one can do by so splintered a method. So it goes for Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Union's new leader. In past weeks, Western observers have labored mightily to produce a portrait of the man, not by leaning on the ice-block facts of his biography but by poking about for the warm little things: Andropov's tastes, his hobbies, his manner. By such humanizing items, it is assumed we shall know him. And it is also assumed we shall like him better for being...
...Kippur war, for example. Congress almost doubled the amount of assistance the Nixon administration had requested. In the aftermath of Lebanon, political experts predicted the Begia government would have trouble getting U.S. funds because of increased resistance from Congress. Ironically, though, the White House is proving the stumbling block...