Word: blocks
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Under non-ordered choice, the conventional wisdom was that students who formed smaller blocking groups would be more likely to secure one of their top choices for housing. But the end of any form of choice has students more concerned with choosing a group of friends to block with rather than selecting a house...
...Eton, William is one of 200 F-Tits, "tit" meaning "squirt" and F denoting the school block inhabited by freshmen. He sleeps in a simple 10-ft. by 7-ft. room above the kitchen; he has his own security man next door. Prince Charles' misery at Gordonstoun is legendary; but Eton's reputation for canings and oppression of younger boys by older ones has faded in recent decades, and William, who had several good friends matriculating with him, was very popular at his previous school...
...pleased. They announced plans to develop a ratings system that would label shows high in sex, violence or other adult material. Their action was spurred by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which will require new TV sets to have the V chip, a device that enables parents to block out objectionable shows. Though network executives have long opposed government efforts to meddle in programming, claiming it would violate their First Amendment rights, they bowed to the growing clamor for giving parents more control over what their kids are watching...
That would explain the vehemence with which tobacco is fighting back--in some cases pre-emptively. Industry lawyers have already filed suits trying to block the possible Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though...
...though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...