Word: block
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...United States. Setting a five-year limit on how long families can receive welfare, the bill requires healthy adults to start working again after two years on the dole and provides hardship exemptions for up to 20 percent of welfare beneficiaries. Under the bill, states would receive block grants to operate the programs, along with the right to set their own welfare rules, such as ending benefits before the five-year mark. The legislation is designed to move people on welfare back into the work force, but has eliminated a $3 billion jobs program approved by the House that would...
...council had received petitions and communications of support from a number of Cantabrigians calling for the down-zoning of three properties on Linnaean Street, one block east of the Radcliffe Quad. There, a developer is trying to raze a house to build condominiums...
Traditionally, a false start occurs when a runner starts before the starter pistol fires. But advances in technology have led to these errors being registered by a sensor attached to the starting block and connected to the starter...
Christie's start was reportedly 0.086 seconds, and a red flag was placed at his block signaling his disqualification...
Upon discovering that he was the false starter, Christie was astonished and removed the red flag from his block, refusing to leave the lane of his last major track event...