• Still, our index gives us a chance to look at real estate on a granular level, highlighting the block-to-block differences that really define local markets.

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  • LightUp even offers an Arduino-compatible microcontroller block to help kids start coding -- clip the programming wand to the block, hook it up to your computer, and away you go.

    ENGADGET

  • It was Manuel Pascali this time who was called upon to make a last-ditch, goal-saving block to prevent Colin Healy's shot finding the target from eight yards.

    BBC: Kilmarnock 0-0 Falkirk

  • One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.

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  • His win is seen as a major obstacle to President Obama's health care bill, since it increases the GOP's Senate numbers to 41, just enough in the 100-person Senate to block votes on a health-care system overhaul.

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  • But if Boehner's plan is for his party to act as an oppositional force -- trying to block, delay and prevent legislative action -- then the GOP could find itself in big trouble.

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  • So far the popchip-off-the-old-block approach seems to be working.

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  • The launcher shoots the bottles at a velocity of 984 feet per second, fast enough to smash a double-layer breeze-block wall and allow assault troops to enter a building, according to the manufacturer, BCB International.

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  • But he added that if you had a small star - as this one is - then a moderate-sized planet would block out enough light to be detected by telescopes.

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  • Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed - which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse - to block Newzbin 2.

    BBC: BT ordered to block links to Newzbin 2 website

  • All this came as the Tories attempted to prove that - unlike the Labour party, which is trying to block Ken Livingstone - its selection process is the most democratic of the lot.

    BBC: Tory pantomime will leave scars

  • That helped Ong muster enough votes -- over 30% -- to block the merger.

    CNN: Business: Failed Merger

  • But British government sources have told me that such a takeover would be unwelcome and it would use its "golden" share in BAE - which gives it special powers - to block any such deal.

    BBC: How Germany killed the merger of BAE and EADS

  • The bad news is that the Bush Administration has thus far failed to take another step essential if America is to be able to counter the threats of aggression increasingly emanating from Pyongyang and Tehran: We have yet to address the block-obsolescence to which the U.S. nuclear arsenal is effectively condemned in the absence of our own program of periodic, safe underground nuclear testing.

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  • Another of the 44 nations -- India -- has sought to block the CTBT at every step: vetoing it in the Conference on Disarmament so that it could not be submitted as a Conference document.

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  • Converting to one-time block grant to local governments: JPY 510 billion reduction.

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  • The first salvo in that battle is coming from House Republicans poised to release on Tuesday a now-familiar budget featuring gestures to block "Obamacare, " turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees and sharply curb Medicaid and domestic agency budgets.

    NPR: Senate Democrats Prepare Government Funding Bill

  • The protocol that defines this block-to-coin ratio reduces the reward given for finding each block every time 210, 000 blocks have been found.

    BBC: Rewards set to halve for digital money miners

  • Iraqi politician Nasar al-Rubaie is the head of a parliament block loyal to anti-American leader Moqtada al-Sadr.

    NPR: Baghdad Awaits Bush Speech on Iraq Policy

  • The agency lost a legal battle with e-cigarette companies in 2010 after trying to block imports of e-cigarettes and has been sceptical about claims they are not harmful.

    CNN: Sales of e-cigarettes continue to soar

  • Campaigners had been extremely worried that China and Japan, the main opponents of the measures, would be able to muster the one-third support needed to re-open the debate and block the ban.

    BBC: Landmark shark ban upheld at conservation meeting

  • They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

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  • The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.

    WSJ: City Prepares For a Chilly Super Bowl

  • House Republicans have discussed pushing a Medicaid per-person spending cap next year as a possible compromise to the Medicaid block grant proposal in the House-passed budget, according to Rep. Mike Burgess (R-TX), but Democratic lobbyists say it is doubtful Congress could work out a deal in part because per-person caps would create bureaucratic nightmares.

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  • Toyota Motor , the leader in hybrid vehicles, has settled a patent-infringement dispute that had threatened to block the sale of the best-selling Prius and other Toyota hybrids.

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  • MOSCOW, Russia -- Iraq remained a stumbling block in talks designed to restore pre-Iraq war relations between Moscow and Washington.

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  • So, basically, this has been 100 percent winner for the government in virtually every case they've been able to dismiss - just to block litigation on the base of this.

    NPR: Invoking the State Secrets Privilege

  • The regulations also bar federal agencies from assessing emissions of the gases blamed for global warming on species and habitats, a tactic environmentalists have tried to use to block new coal-fired power plants.

    CNN: Bush set to relax endangered species rules

  • Even so, the commission and others are pressing wireless carriers to offer consumers the option to block third-party billing as a way to prevent cramming charges.

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  • The aircraft currently being tested are Block 10 aircraft -- they are not designed to have the full Block 30 capabilities until subsequent retrofits are completed.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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