• Great moments are when the seamless walls blocking entrepreneurs open up from time to time.

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  • Pop-up blocking software can help limit the images from being displayed on websites.

    FORBES: Cyber Crooks See Huge Opportunity In Japan's Tragedy

  • Firefox was first to popularize tabbed browsing and first to integrate pop-up blocking, spell checking and antiphishing into the browser.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Blocking the way up the stairs was a massive yellow iron metal door that sealed off access to the upper two floors of the house.

    CNN: A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair

  • The Gen Xers, now in their 20s and 30s, have always felt stymied by the enormous mass of boomers blocking their way up the ladder.

    FORBES: Buying A Stairway To Heaven

  • "The metal barriers they used to keep people in line on their way in, ended up blocking people from getting out, " Mattheus Bortolotto, a young dentist, told local TV.

    BBC: Eyewitness: Kiss night club fire in Santa Maria, Brazil

  • Firefox's new features include automatic updates (users previously had to complete an installation for each update) and extra pop-up ad blocking.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But when seemingly useless possessions and even rotten food pile up, blocking exits and filling beds, sofas, sinks and bathtubs, it's evidence of a psychiatric condition called compulsive hoarding.

    WSJ: Compulsive Hoarding Affects up to 2% of the Population

  • Gylfi Sigurdsson and Birkir Bjarnason opened up the visiting defence and Kolbeinn Sigtorsson fired in a shot from the near post which Martin saved before also blocking the follow-up from Sigurdsson on the penalty spot.

    BBC: Iceland U21 2-1 Scotland U21

  • "Blocking technology made pop-up ads basically extinct, and I don't think anybody feels pity for them, " he says.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The stats from Euro 2012 back this theory up, with England blocking more shots on goal and putting in more tackles than any other nation upon their exit.

    CNN: June 29, 2012 -- Updated 1447 GMT (2247 HKT)

  • And the Baggies came agonisingly close to an equaliser when Miller sprung the offside strap and forced Almunia into action again, with Djourou blocking Robinson's follow-up close to his own goalline.

    BBC: Arsenal 1-0 West Brom

  • Deng then produced a defensive play to win the game, blocking Hanga's lay-up after he had seemed set to drive to the basket to give the visitors the lead with 26 seconds remaining.

    BBC: GB men fight back to beat Hungary

  • Now that the euro is ablaze, some Tory Eurosceptics want to park in front of the fire station, blocking treaty changes aimed at shoring up the currency unless the EU returns swathes of powers to British control.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • When Frazier was promoted in April, I wrote that the decision seemed to indicate that Merck was going to focus on blocking and tackling as it wrapped up the integration of Schering-Plough and would not be embarking in any radical new direction.

    FORBES: Incoming Merck CEO Promises "Transformation Never Before Seen In Our Industry"

  • Reuters reported that up to 60 tribesmen were blocking the Karakoram Highway in the small mountain town of Besham, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Islamabad.

    BBC: Taleban tell tribesmen to wait

  • And we, as consumers, face these sheer walls, smooth as glass, edifices of obsidian, crystal, and silver that reach up to the sky, blocking all but a tiny patch of light.

    FORBES: Dystopia In The Lovely Walled Gardens

  • Democrats in the Senate inched closer to an agreement on health care, taking up the two biggest hurdles blocking overhaul legislation from a final vote: abortion and a government-sponsored public option.

    NPR: Senators Announce Tentative Deal On Public Option

  • How many entrepreneurs will invest in new food and energy sources when a currency is collapsing, investors are fleeing to speculation, capital gains taxes are set to go up and green zealots are blocking breakthroughs in nanotech and genetically modified food?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).

    ECONOMIST: Japanese consumer finance

  • Let wireless reach its potential by opening up spectrum and discouraging municipalities from blocking tower construction.

    FORBES: Co-authored with Berin Szoka.

  • Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came to be known as Governor Gloom.

    CNN: It's My Party And I'll Run If I Want To

  • Murray said that technical difficulties prevented the microphone from picking up sound, the drill steel was blocking the microphone, and a line broke.

    CNN: Camera lowered into mine cavity shows 'survivable space'

  • Feeling you have to stay to avoid your party losing a by-election is understandable, up to a point, but bed-blocking forever wastes space and short-changes democracy.

    BBC: Farewell, David Miliband

  • Working with Yale University neurologist Stephen Strittmatter, who cloned the Nogo gene, Biogen Idec has created a counterinsurgency protein that acts as a sponge to soak up copies of Nogo and other growth-blocking proteins in the spinal cord before they can bind to the receptor.

    FORBES: Health

  • With a like-minded liberaliser as finance minister (some think he himself will assume the post), he could force through some crucial reforms that Ms Banerjee was instrumental in blocking such as allowing foreign supermarket chains to set up in India.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • If there is an issue with price movement, surely governments around the world should look to stop blocking the most efficient methods of growing hardy crops that can stand up to weather extremes.

    FORBES: China Tackles Inflation. Food Prices Rising. Good For Monsanto & Syngenta.

  • The over-cosy consensus that has given the trade unions, which are close to the Social Democrats, a big say in policy (blocking suggestions, for instance, that the retirement age should go up) may be weakened too.

    ECONOMIST: Austria

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