Word: blocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House and Senate have 30 days after the President gives notice of an arms sale in which to block the arrangement by a joint resolution. If either chamber declines to object to the President's initiative, the sale goes through. (The deadline for the latest deal is May 28.) Both House and Senate rely heavily on committee recommendations in making their decisions: a recommendation for or against a sale would be difficult to reverse. In carrying out its pro-sale campaign, the Administration therefore concentrated on two main fronts: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the 37-member House...
...with the U.S., I think Charles will more and more assume the globe-trotting activities-other than political-of an American Vice President. Overall, one can be certain that the Queen, unlike Victoria, who prevented Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales from doing anything worthwhile, will not block Prince Charles. If the Prime Minister of the day has a good job for him to do, the Queen will be delighted...
...alone; it especially does not please me to think that violence, in any shape or form, sometimes accompanies protest. And when President Bok could not enter Massachusetts Hall on April 24, when he was chased into the Square by shouting students, and when students attempted to block his car as he tried to flee from the scene...then I am very much distressed...
...older building (522,500 sq. ft.). The new structure may be the most expensive public building to have been erected in America. Most of the $95 million that went into it came from one man, Paul Mellon−and the foundation he controls. The funds to construct the main block of the National Gallery were furnished 40 years ago by his father Andrew Mellon...
...employs sun heat for some beer pasteurization, Campbell's Soup to heat water to wash its cans, Tropicana to steam-process its orange juice. Solar energy provides heat or hot water or both in a visitors' center at Mount Rushmore, S. Dak., Disney World's office block in Orlando, an Atlanta public school, and urban cooperatives in Lower Manhattan...