Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From amber waves of grain to purple mountain majesties, America is selling a little bit of almost everything under its beautiful for spacious skies. Want a lighthouse overlooking one of the most spectacular stretches of California's rugged coastline? Just such a property is going on the block. A piece of prime bottom land in the Midwest? The Government is prepared to part with several hundred acres worth. Looking for privacy? Uncle Sam is offering mountaintops and ranger stations in Montana and New Hampshire...
...yard of Dee's 500-acre hog farm in central Iowa and shook hands with his smiling host. The President headed for the farmyard, where he gingerly scratched the ear of Shank, an 800-lb. boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers, all of whom had voted for their guest in 1980. The President sipped lemonade, spooned into homemade peach ice cream and drew hearty laughs with vintage Reagan storytelling...
Celebrity customers notwithstanding, Tommy's Lunch down the block stands apart from the rest. A cultural Mecca for the Lowell-Adams House axis, the Tomster usually attracts a heady mix of preppies and offspring of third world ruling classes. Don't order anything more than a frappe or a cheesestead, and don't talk to strangers with eye patches...
...easier for undergraduate to get credit for study abroad and at other schools. Although this ought to be of little concern to incoming freshmen, he also proposed changes which would make the doling out of honors at diploma time a little more equitable. Now that you've read that, block it out of your mind--you haven't even filled out your first study card...
Indeed, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger opposed the decision to extend the grain sale at all. But Reagan bowed to pressure from hard-pressed U.S. farmers. Said Agriculture Secretary John Block: "We have always offered about all they would buy. We're thinking of ourselves, and we should...