To Brazilians, outsiders who want to block their ethanol in the name of environmentalism or concern about food prices or labour conditions look like old-fashioned protectionists in hypocritical disguise.

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She noticed that most kids signed their names in pastel colors so on our last trip she whipped out a stick of fluorescent pink chalk and wrote her name in big block letters and drew a self-portrait.

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The absent of big block buster drugs have been hurting the major name pharmaceutical companies over the last year.

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And here is where most companies struggle with the plethora of choices available today inthe domain of social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and the new kids on the block, BranchOut and Google Plus, to name just a few.

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Jones concluded that the way to block the project was to give it a new name.

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Calligrapher Carrie Shuping, who specializes in wedding invitations, gets many requests from brides these days for a guest's name to be written in cursive or italics but the address in block print.

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