Word: blockings
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...federal government that some critics on the left, as well as some on the right, see as unnecessarily broad at best and unconstitutional at worst. And in court, the Bush Administration frequently invoked the state secrets privilege - the right to withhold information that compromises national security - to block civil litigation and shield evidence from public scrutiny...
Still, the first confrontation between anarchists and cops was over quickly. The police took less than half an hour to block the anarchists' way downtown, stopping them on the wide expanse of Liberty Avenue and forcing them to reroute. "I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly," came the booming pre-taped police announcement - the first of at least six aimed at the march of about 800 people against the Group of 20 economic summit of the world's richest countries that had started in Pittsburgh's convention center Thursday afternoon. The announcements also made clear the consequences...
...neighborhood where I lived as a child, where for decades orderly rows of sturdy brick homes lined each block, is now the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth. Some of the surviving houses look as if the wrecker's ball is the only thing that could relieve their pain. On the adjacent business streets, commercial activity is so palpably absent you'd think a neutron bomb had been detonated - except the burned-out storefronts and bricked-over windows suggest that something physically destructive happened as well. (See the most important cars of all time...
...this year, and we'll do it sustainably through to 2020. We'll nearly urbanize the population of the United States over the next 10 years.' I can be very assured that I can place my bets for the company." Of course, Jackson wasn't betting that Beijing would block Coke's proposed $2.4 billion acquisition of Chinese juicemaker Huiyuan, which would have been the largest sale to a foreign company in China's commercial history. But the Ministry of Commerce blocked the deal on antitrust grounds, saying the merger would give Coke too much control of the country...
...that measure the success of technology transfer by its impact on access and continued innovation; that removes legal barriers to generic production of Harvard technologies in resource-limited countries, using proactive licensing provisions to ensure that barriers such as follow-on patents and data exclusivity cannot be used to block such production...