"Consolidate" them into block grant.
The streets near the stadium turned into block parties.
Mr. Pataki appeared to be talking about eliminating many of those categories, turning them into block grants.
Sinochem bought into Block 26 through its acquisition of Emerald Energy last year and has a stated ambition to significantly increase overseas production.
Another feature that needs to be studied is Mr. Bush's approach to consolidating dozens of different school-aid programs into block grants giving greater flexibility to the states.
The New York City streets make up 39,000 blocks, and about 10,000 of them are organized into block associations.
Medicaid would be cut by an additional $756 billion, by turning it into block grants to the states and limiting growth.
And they would cut and cap spending for Medicaid and other safety-net programs and turn those programs into block grants to the states.
That federal money was converted into block grants, and the states were given flexibility to spend it as they saw fit.
Mr. Santorum proposes to extend that achievement by converting all means-tested federal entitlement programs, including food stamps and housing subsidies, into block grants to states.
He also promised real savings on prescription drug costs in Medicare and refused to accept Mr. Ryan's notion of shrinking Medicaid into block grants.
