Word: block
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...Colorado legislator in the late '70s, Gorsuch, 39, led a successful battle to block her state's participation in the EPA's hazardous-wastes program. She also fought for less stringent auto emission standards in a Colorado clean-air law. Thus when President Reagan nominated her last February to be the nation's chief enforcer against pollution, environmentalists were appalled. They feared that she had been appointed less to run the agency than to dismantle it. As she completes the first year of her imperious reign-restive subordinates at EPA call her the "Ice Queen"-conservationists...
...left off. "Less government" has nothing to do with it. The tax decision will make it easier for whites in the south and elsewhere to abandon the public schools and form exclusive sanctuaries from their Black neighbors. These all-white academies have been among the most egregious attempts to block integration in the south, and with its decision, the Administration has offered its explicit support to these institutions of bigotry...
...month--the second highest monthly figure since 1941. But sadly, the job situation seems almost certain to worsen this year, under the weight of the President's new--but still oppressive--economic initiatives. Equally discouraging, America's ailing inner cities again seem first on the White House's chopping block...
...effective community pressure on the developers of Parcel 1B, another enormous development planned on a site next to University Place. A coalition of neighborhood groups managed to block construction with one lawsuit after another; it wasn't until the developer of that land agreed to make major concessions that they backed off. "If anything, Parcel 1B was the breakthrough for residents," Thomas Anninger, president of the Neighborhood 10 Association, says. "It gave Harvard and other developers an example showing that a project will come out better with design review collaboration...
...graffiti: DON'T LET THEM DIE; TOUTS WILL BE SHOT; and in bold white letters across the jerry-built walls, WELCOME TO PROVOLAND. In a sense the Livingstones are a Provo family, since Bernadette's two older brothers, Patrick, 30, and Martin, 24, are serving time in the H block; one of them is up for murder. But Bernadette has her own politics: "I don't support the I.R.A. because I know what death...