High tariffs on powdered milk (227%) and butter (464%) in effect block out foreign competition.

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The findings may also provide a way to make new drugs to block the "reward effect" some people get from drinking.

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Mr. Hoff said the coalition is exploring a variety of ways to block the proposal from taking effect, including the possibility of a legal challenge.

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But his own ruling party would still, in effect, be able to block an opponent.

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The suit, filed by the American Beverage Association and others, seeks to block the restriction, set to take effect March 12.

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By empowering the European Commission to negotiate as a block, European governments have, in effect, accepted the implications of the Court's ruling.

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The two groups joined a lawsuit filed by the American Beverage Association and others that seeks to block the restriction, set to take effect March 12.

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The teams believe a 2006 "Memorandum of Cooperation" among themselves, Triple Five and the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority gives the teams the right to block changes to the project that would have an adverse effect on their business, people familiar with the teams' position said.

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Among economic historians there is a growing consensus that guilds in Europe lost their ability to block new technology once society realised that innovation had a beneficial effect on humanity, and was thus not a zero-sum game.

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So far, it is unclear whether they will fully back DaimlerChrysler: although they have in effect washed their hands of Mitsubishi, they might still block reforms such as aggressive job-cutting if they felt these might tarnish the group brand.

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