Word: block
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...upshot is that Congress today is much more of a brake on an Administration's initiatives ? and perhaps on the nation's progress ? than it is an inspiring source of fresh ideas and solutions to problems. Whether that reactive tendency, to block what a President proposes, is perceived as good or bad depends, of course, on the observer's political point of view. In any case, Congress this year will not produce many dramatic new legislative achievements. Reagan, in fact, has asked it to undo much of what its predecessors have done...
...mention all the people who go to church via Zenith and Sony) and you have the greatest social mobilization America knows. It's more popular than football, even, and its always in season. And where is the American church strongest? Where can you find three meetinghouses in a block, all filled on the Sabbath? Right in the conservative heartland that America's Right counts as its unassailable base of support...
...though, all the cows miscarried. Rather than assess and second-guess her own delayed shock values. Atwood states her preference for filling the months between novels--when the emotional and creative cycles don't overlap--with writing T.V. docudramas and adaptations, her mental equivalent of a jog around the block...
...rock, at the center of the shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered glass fell on the mosque's priceless Afghan and Iranian carpets. Moments later, when police arrived, they found...
...that the company has an office in almost every U.S. city with a population of more than 5,000, Bloch fears that the growth of his tax business may soon peak. As a result, he is moving H&R Block into several new fields. Block's Personnel Pool of America, with some 300 branches nationwide, provides nurses for temporary hospital and home medical care. The company's CompuServe division supplies a variety of computer-based services, including an electronic mail system for businesses. Through a new subsidiary, Block provides management services to a chain of 65 storefront legal...