Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Urban Development estimates that 2 million people encounter racial discrimination in housing every year. Last week the Senate passed a new, tougher Fair Housing Act that will finally make it easier for the Federal Government to assist victims of discrimination in suing landlords and real estate agents who block their access to housing...
Among its many provisions, the law will allow the President to block a foreign takeover of a U.S. company if the deal would harm national security. The legislation also directs the White House to speed up efforts to reduce foreign pirating of U.S. patents and copyrights. Perhaps the single most ; important provision will require the Government to begin comprehensive investigations of the trade practices of countries like Japan that allegedly maintain numerous barriers against imports. But what action to take, if any, is largely left up to the President. The legislation no longer contains the highly protectionist amendment proposed...
Knowledge of geography is the building block upon which students can begin to understand America's position within a larger framework of countries. It is essential for economic reasons and for political ones...
Gonzalez found the perfect canvas: a gray concrete-block wall just off Cheesbrough's Lane in the parking lot of El Mercado, a Hispanic gathering place for shopping, food stalls and mariachi bands. Olmos grew up in a house just down the street. Gonzalez and fellow Muralists Tony Ramirez and Xavier Quijas got to work with their acrylic paints. Then Photographer Harry Benson captured the image that appears on the cover...
...each other's nerves. But Hughes cannot be bothered here with surprise or subtlety, so his antagonists have the fatigued familiarity of sitcom characters toward the end of a long run. Next time, Hughes might consider a longer gestation period for his script. Or maybe a writer's block...