Equipment designed to cap any potential oil spill in case of a blow-out was damaged, work had to instantly stop.
One of the companies making headway in the Business of Concussions is Guardian Caps, which created a cap that an individual can place on an existing helmet for the stated purpose of reducing the impact in the case of a blow to the head.
And his case was dealt a blow later in the week when his son, daughter-in-law and brother-in-law all pleaded guilty to laundering large sums of money for the family.
ECONOMIST: A former president and the judiciary are both in the dock
And the company received another blow this month when it lost a case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) related to an aggressive tax savings scheme.
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This is the case that may deliver a knockout blow to business method patents, those patents that everybody from free-software zealots to conservative Republicans love to hate.
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In the case of the FBAR matter, it was the blow up of UBS and other offshore banking institutions.
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This is a blow to many policyholders who are hoping to build a legal case for compensation against the government for its failure to spot Equitable's troubles.
ECONOMIST: Policyholders' hopes for compensation are dwindling
Needless to say, on this Christmas Eve it was less a case of "Jingle Bells" than it was of "Blow the Hooter!"
It's just a case of holding things together now and making sure I don't blow up.
The case, which has been characterized in the press as a "major blow" to a criminal statute that has become the darling of the prosecutor's nursery, involved Jeffrey Skilling, who served as Enron's chief executive officer for seven scandalous months in 2001 prior to its infamous bankruptcy.
Ceri Noble, 44, of Rhondda, was charged with Mr Lavelle's murder but the court case collapsed in 2006 when it could not be proved who dealt the fatal blow.
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Essentially Ralph makes his case by citing the predominantly negative and skeptical tone of the commentariat, the blow-off top in treasury yields and the undeniably positive breadth between disparate stocks, sectors and even global markets (see: 11 Reasons Why Ralph Acampora is a Secular Bull ).
If the Supreme Courts decides in favor of the EPA on the merits of the case, the states' movement to regulate carbon dioxide will be dealt a likely mortal blow.
If the airline does finally crash, it will be a big blow to Greece's reforming prime minister, Costas Simitis: it has become a test-case in his campaign to reform his country's slovenly public sector.
You may try to explode it, blow it up, whatever, depending on what you want to do with it, and in this case, they're going to send waves coming in off the shore, you know, lapping in off of Lake Pontchartrain, and they want to try to understand why the flood protection built by the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold up.
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