Word: block
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...Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using prescription medicines...
...Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using prescription medicines...
That infuriated the Protestants. For three days, gangs of hooded men blocked roads and torched cars. On Wednesday 180 fires raged, and the commander of Belfast's fire brigade called it his department's busiest night since the Luftwaffe bombed the city in 1941. The following day, ruc Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley reversed his orders. Police began shoving Catholic protesters out of the way and escorting Orangemen down Garvaghy Road. Unionist marches unfolded across the province. When Catholic demonstrators tried to block them, the police went to work with their nightsticks. Running battles ensued, with petrol bombs from rioters...
...hard to see why cops in a police state find Pramoedya an embarrassment and a danger. A final irony in this rich lode is that for several years Pramoedya has suffered from writer's block in regard to his fiction. Presently he is working on an Indonesian encyclopedia. "Indonesia is still an abstract concept for me," he says wryly. An encyclopedia, he thinks, might help make this diffuse country of 17,000 islands and 365 languages and dialects a more graspable reality. For his readers, the Buru Quartet has already done that...
...Wolf headquarters is large--about twice as big as the Galluccio space--and, due to its location on the corner of the block, easily visible to motorists driving up and down Mass...