Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likable, charming and always has the best interests of farmers at heart. But Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 46, is regarded in Washington as something of a political lightweight, lacking the toughness and savvy to handle an all but impossible job. Time and again, Block has been outmaneuvered by powers within the Administration and on Capitol Hill who do not share his priorities, which are to make farming profitable again and to reduce the Government's role in agriculture...
...more next July 1. Thus many financial consultants are now telling their clients to defer the receipt of year-end income, if possible, until early next year so that the money will be taxed at the lower 1982 rate. Said Ken Treat, a regional director of H & R Block tax advisers: "Payments for rents, dividends, loans, salaries, bonuses and all flexible income should be delayed until after January 1982." Taking a bit of its own advice, H & R Block will distribute its fourth-quarter dividends, which are normally sent out this month, in January...
...Japanese art of wood-block prints flourished in the late 18th century when masters like Kitagawa Utamaro illustrated kyoka, a form of comic verse. In A Chorus of Birds (Metropolitan Museum of Art-Viking; unpaginated; $17.95), the season's most unusual book, Utamaro's animated sparrows and hawks, roosters and owls move through a fused world of nature, art and literature. A further enchantment: the volume is not conventionally bound; the accordion-pleated illustrations open into a 30-ft. frieze...
...Laurence Wylie, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Emeritus and a leader of the fight to block the demolitions; said in a letter to The Crimson this week that "ordinary citizens had no chance of being [aware] of Harvard's plans until the demolition notice went...
Colleen McCullough's An Indecent Obsession follows her block-busting Thorn Birds; that's probably a better reason to buy her newest novel than its unconvincing World War II story line. But Mom and Dad loved McCullough's first book, and they'll probably love you for getting them this book by the same author...