Word: embargoing
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Subscribers to the VNS service must agree to an embargo on the data until the majority of the polls in a particular state have closed, in order to ensure that a projected outcome does not influence voters or reduce turnout...
...Internet: A landslide. This, at least, is the hopes of those renegade web journalists who plan to ignore the embargo on exit-poll results and post them as soon as they become available, while the TV networks sit on their hands. The bigger the win, the greater the margin by which Matt Drudge, say, can scoop Tom Brokaw. If winners start getting announced online early, expect pressure on TV to end-around the embargo by reporting the "news" of the leaks...
...countries - not exactly par for the course for a country subjected to fearsome international sanctions. Even more alarming for Washington is the fact that the biggest delegations came from Russia, China and France, three of the five permanent members of the same U.N. Security Council that maintains the embargo...
...know that "embargo" spelled backwards is, "O, grab me?" Just a thought...
...been at sea for two uneventful months when their vessel arrived in the Yemen harbor of Aden last Thursday. Unrest in the region and the Cole's upcoming six-month mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck, armed and at attention. But they...