Word: blocked
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...that committee," said Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate GOP whip. What's more, Grassley's term as ranking Republican on the powerful tax-writing panel will expire at the end of 2010; he stands to assume that spot on the Judiciary Committee, but the Republican leadership could block him from getting it. Things have become so uncomfortable for Grassley at times that he has mused privately about retiring, telling colleagues, "Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
That's all well and good, but the e-mail also mentioned a ban on partitioning suites out of concern that the divisions might block sprinklers from putting out fires in certain portions of a room. Kirkland Building Manager Scott Haywood says office and curtain partitions are generally fine, although preferably they should be flame resistant or flame retardant. Obviously, you’re not allowed to bring in plywood and build a wall in the middle of your common room. If a flood of sprinkler water will easily knock down your partition, you’re probably fine...
...Block Re your cover story, "Can China Save the World?" [Aug. 10]: Throughout years of turmoil and political instability, the Chinese have often suffered the prejudice and discrimination of Westerners. However, in recent times, China has opened up, transforming an impoverished country into a miracle of history. With a booming economy, a huge population, remarkably high economic growth and with more affluent Chinese willing to spend big bucks on luxury goods, no wonder investors from everywhere are pouring much of their resources into the Chinese market and trying hard to woo many Chinese consumers and companies to their own homelands...
Where Rushdie, by now a friend, used baroque language to spin fantastical tales spanning continents and centuries, Kureishi stayed street. His father figures were faded and refined - dusty relics from a more gracious time who looked to literature or socialism to block out the cold realities of being foreign-born in 1970s Britain. Their sons weren't Pakistanis but "Pakis," who snorted coke, fornicated and embraced the Thatcherite dream of making money fast. "When I was in school, the long-standing stereotype of the South Asian male was of the studious nerd, who was going straight to an enviable university...
...such small opportunities for celebration are all that most Pakistanis have. The wealthy can avoid reality by dousing it with money and praying that the tide will turn on its own. As for the rest, all they can do, from time to time, is block reality with a little hope...