The naysayers could, however, gum up the works in ways that actually make things worse for broadband holdouts.

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Staffers have also ripped ballots and spilled coffee on them anything to anticipate what might gum up the works.

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And what that indicates is a degree to which we're just trying to gum up the works instead of getting business done.

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Areas that tend to gum up the works: asset sales, perks (such as tax-free public transit cards), tax-free transactions, outside partnership income and deferred compensation.

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The four horsemen really can gum up the works.

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This is the point where the process gets even messier and where anti-biotech activists and lawyers do their best to gum up the works in hopes of generating a critical mass of negative public opinion.

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No ideological sideshows to gum up the works.

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Of course, by Android's nature, it's easy to gum up the works by installing too many apps trying to do too many things at once -- but with a few of our essentials installed and the device fully synced to our Google account, everything sped right along.

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The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.

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The goal was to jam the works by synthesizing an antisense strand of DNA to gum up the RNA section that codes for PKC-alpha.

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