Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply taking a more active political role. It now resents the fait accomplis of military intervention-as in the Dominican Republic-which it has felt compelled to rubber stamp. Most encouraging of all. Congress has been willing to use its ultimate prerogative, the power of the purse, to block expansion of the war into Thailand and Laos. The fear that foreign policy is being made at the Pentagon, implicit in the Senate's concern for Laos, indicates a new legislative independence...
...needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with 50% of the population crammed into the corridor, it is a smog-covered slurb...
...effect, the Justice Department simply approved of what Ling was already trying to do. Financially hard-pressed, he put LTV's 55% holdings in Braniff on the block several months ago. Now the trustbusters have given him three years to sell out. The merger trend in the airline industry should make Braniff relatively easy to dispose of. Wall Streeters think that Pan American and Eastern are potential buyers. On the other hand, LTV's unsuccessful attempt in January to sell Braniff to Norton Simon Inc. may indicate a desire to find a buyer outside the airline industry...
...only undefeated team in the nation. Matches with mediocre Princeton and Yale were only procedural steps on the way to the Crimson's fifth undefeated season in nine years. Harvard disposed of the Tigers, 9-0, and now Yale. a 9-0 victim of Princeton, must approach the chopping block...
...example, the first week we were rehearsing, on Thursday night-???h it was just abominabale, and by Sunday you had the feeling of a show getting together. By the end of this block of time you felt that you had really accomplished something. It wears people out but it really polishes a show...