Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle over the hard to serve is being waged now in Congress in a multibillion-dollar fight over welfare funding. The 1996 act guaranteed the states $16.4 billion in block grants annually. But with welfare rolls plunging around the country, much of that money has gone unspent--and congressional Republicans are talking about taking back at least $4 billion. That would be a "big mistake," Clinton declared last week in Chicago. He'd like to see the money spent on the millions of people "who could move from welfare to work if they had more training, if they had transportation...
Jeff Taylor knew what he was seeing was no joke. Since January, Taylor, the founder of Monster.com the pioneering online job board, had been hatching his own plans for a Web service that would let job seekers put themselves on the block. And although the eBay geeks didn't sell themselves, the fact that they had given it a go was enough, in Taylor's mind, to "validate the process." So last month Monster rolled out its "talent market," where independent contractors and freelancers can trumpet their skills and put themselves up for auction to prospective employers...
...KING'S RANSOM GOES ON THE BLOCK...
...life," JJ-Spaceboy posted last week. RHinkley demurred: "I snuck in and I still felt ripped off." And SRKROL got that familiar trepidation: "The bad thing about it is the fact that I live in a heavily wooded area, with a cemetery dating back to the 1750s half a block away, it's really late, and my three dogs need to go for a walk. I think they can wait 'til daylight...
...Aguilera, who is half Ecuadorian and half Irish, had only a passing interest in the pop music of the day. Instead she had a thing for Rodgers and Hammerstein. She not only learned every note of The Sound of Music but even began singing the songs at neighborhood block parties. Her big, broad roof raisers got her noticed: by the time Aguilera was 10, the legend of the little girl with the large voice had grown so fast that she was belting out the national anthem at Penguins, Pirates and Steeler games...