Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...converting funds once earmarked for particular educational purposes into general "block funds," the Education Department could set itself up for a major cut in funding, said Merkowitz...
...Washington Redskins also refuse to be taken to D.C. General--the hospital just one block away from RFK stadium. When Joe Theisman broke his leg on Monday Night Football, he was air-lifted far away from the predominantly poor and Black patients at D.C. General to an isolated hospital in the suburbs. A fan injured in the stands that same night went you-know-where...
...simple last time around. When former President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, liberal and moderate interest groups rallied to block the confirmation, and the Senate promptly nixed his nomination--reasoning that Bork's interpretation of the Constitution was entirely out of sync with the mainstream of American legal thought...
...will situate ourselves at the starting block so when the money comes we will be ready," says...
...ready for an expected retail slump? By expanding, of course. So it was that klieg lights flashed and 50 fashion models strutted their stuff last week to launch a 23-store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps in Rome...