Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Bank, however, has been the rise of a national debate over the basic question of how Arabs under Israeli rule should be treated. A spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared last week that Jerusalem's aim in the West Bank was to block the growth and influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But he added, "Personally, I have reservations about how it is being done." Echoing that sentiment, members of the Labor opposition and many ordinary citizens have begun to speak out against the government's policies in the occupied territories...
...their incomes went up. That increased work effort, the theory goes, would spur economic growth. The flat tax would also make Form 1040 so simple to fill out that the public would save billions of dollars that now go to accountants, lawyers and tax-preparation firms like H&R Block. In addition, flat-tax advocates believe, the American people want an equitable system in which everyone pays his fair share and the rich cannot evade taxes by taking advantage of loopholes or creating tax shelters...
Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
...have met Galtieri. Before me as I write is a handsome block of marble with the Argentine army's badge on it in metal and a little brass plate recording that it was given to General Sir John Hackett by Lieut. General Leopoldo Galtieri...
...Have a Baby-or Three"). Well, Bing is gone, and soon a lot of the "other things" will be too, says Kathryn, 48. Late this month at Butterfield's auction house in San Francisco, she will put virtually her entire collection of Bing-a-brac on the block. Included is Bing's first recording, I've Got the Girl, made in 1926 with Don Clark and his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra. Also up for bids: Bing's fishing gear (fish too, sold separately), the Crosby family Bible and most of his trophies and awards, from...