Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information from the census, which people mail in regarding numbers [of persons living] in houses, and would then send people to the same houses to take a new, more exact count. Then we would compare the two counts and arrive at a different adjustment factor for each population block--such as Black males or white, elderly women. By applying those numbers to national statistics, we would adjust for the names missed in the national mailing," says Rubin, who has worked with the Census Bureau on statistical problems several times over the last 10 years...
...tied together for some time by the common bond of the child they all claim. Whitehead-Gould declared herself "delighted to know my relationship with my daughter will continue for the rest of our lives." That prospect left the Sterns considerably less than delighted. They plan to try to block or limit the visits...
...same hotel as the promerger forces. Social Democratic President Shirley Williams angrily accused Owen, a former Labor Foreign Minister, of "acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis" and warned that "all of us will be losers" if the proposed union did not pass. "Mergerites" tried to block a rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams...
...today looks nearly brand new. Credit that to oil, which lies beneath the surrounding prairie in vast pools and has made a passel of folks as rich as the Ewings from Dallas. Of the 1,000 or so petroleum companies registered in Canada, 800 hang their Stetsons in Calgary. Block after block of antiseptic-looking office towers have popped out of the ground in the past 15 years, creating the illusion on a crisp February night of a skyline cut meticulously from cardboard...
...former high school teacher who was detained for two months in 1976 for political activism, Hendrickse became chairman of the House of Representatives ministers' council in September 1984, which earned him a seat in Botha's Cabinet. When Botha learned last August that Hendrickse intended to block the postponement, he warned him that he could not do so and remain in the Cabinet. Hendrickse resigned. He is convinced that Botha is trying to split the Labor Party and replace him with a more pliant leader. Says he: "Carrots have been dangled...