Word: blocks
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...President Clinton signed into law the sweeping telecommunications bill passed by Congress, he officially launched the era of the V chip. A little device that will be required equipment in most new TV sets within two years, the V chip allows parents to automatically block out programs that have been labeled (by whom remains to be seen) as high in violence, sex or other objectionable material. Last week also saw the release of a weighty academic study that said, in effect, it's about time. Financed by the cable industry and conducted by four universities, the study concluded that violence...
Zakowich was shaky, letting the Big Red beat him on its first two shots, but the rookie proceeded to block 12 of the next...
Both ritonavir and indinavir belong to a promising new class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...
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...this summer, while local phone giant GTE said it will team up with the nation's fourth-largest long-distance provider to market services under the GTE name. Another section of the law requires television manufacturers to install in every set a "V-chip," which parents could program to block programs they find objectionable. Clinton, who hawked the technology during his State of the Union address, calls the chip a tool for "parents who want to take more responsibility for their children's upbringing." Prominent Republicans have given the chip a lukewarm response, favoring the concept, but questioning the wisdom...