Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush tells governors they must raise state taxes to finance new education plans--he only believes in "no new taxes" at the federal level. This overwhelming hypocrisy may ultimately prove to be a major stumbling block to progressive reform in the educational system. Fifty independently conceived and funded approaches to education do not a national policy make...
...near Guangzhou, the other in Beijing. At both places, two teachers handle a class of approximately 40 four-year-olds. Instructive slogans adorn the walls: THE NAIL THAT STICKS OUT GETS HAMMERED DOWN and THE LONG POLE GETS SAWED OFF. Creativity, experimentation, even simple play are discouraged. Handed blocks, the children erect structures pictured in workbooks; once completed, the buildings are torn down and put up again and again until the time allotted for block-building expires. And "No talking, while you're building," a teacher scolds. Or while you're eating, for that matter, or while you're going...
Gallo has come under increasing pressure to curb its sales in such neighborhoods. On Sept. 12 the Los Angeles county board of supervisors called for a voluntary ban on the sales of fortified wine in a 70-block downtown district. Some law-enforcement experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of such restrictions, saying that drunks could buy their alcohol in a better neighborhood. But Phillip Faight, chairman of a San Francisco group called Safe and Sober Streets, hailed Gallo's move. Said Faight: "If only one person goes to detox as a result of this, the whole thing's worth...
...Burroughs Wellcome said it had been planning the cut for some time, the announcement came on the heels of angry protests. Well-organized AIDS activists condemned AZT's high price at stock exchanges in London, New York and San Francisco, chanting such slogans as "Be the first on your block to sell your Burroughs Wellcome stock." Senate staffers in Edward Kennedy's office began researching possible ways to nationalize the drug by invoking a law, dating from World War I, that allows the Government to revoke exclusive patents and licenses in the interest of national security. And the House Subcommittee...
...more tissues outside the brain, circulate in the bloodstream and enter various other tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory and intellect. If that is true, then a way might be found to block the delivery of the protein to the brain. That could slow down -- or even halt -- Alzheimer...