Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering the vague nature of indecency and its even more vague effect on youngsters, the price we would pay in freedom for supposedly protecting our children is simply unacceptably high. One alternate solution might be a software equivalent of the proposed V-chip, which will allow parents to block violent television programs. For instance, network software such as Netscape might allow parents to content-regulate their children's browsing on a private and individual basis. Additionally, we must not forget that the American people always have the option of asking individuals and private companies to voluntarily regulate what they post...
...Republican Congress wants to change all that. In place of an open-ended entitlement, the G.O.P. proposes block grants that would essentially give states a lump sum each year to spend for Medicaid's traditional purposes as the states see fit. The G.O.P. would then slow the growth rates of these "Medigrants" from the current forecast of 10% yearly to 5%, with some states coming down to as little as 2% growth. On the positive side, the block grants limit the Federal Government's financial exposure to rising Medicaid costs. And the G.O.P. is not proposing actual cuts, but reductions...
...kept mum about their anxieties, afraid that going public would stall their party's momentum in Washington. That can't last. Rising G.O.P. star Christine Whitman of New Jersey, up for re-election in 1997, could be the first to face the consequences. She says she supports the block-grant approach "philosophically" but wants "a glide path that's doable," not the downshift Gingrich has in store, which would take New Jersey from 10% growth to 2% in just 11 months...
...points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth, the hyper-refined freehand curve with the lump and the block. And when those sleek organic forms, half-volatilized in light, rise up from their wooden pedestals, you think of the resurrection of glorified bodies...
...seriousness, I'm glad I came here. Seasons, like most other inconveniences, are tolerable in a four-year block. And I do finally understand what Emily Dickinson meant when she said "There's a certain slant of light, Winter afternoons...