Moreover, companies such as Titan are including rules on the exchange, which will block any bids that fall below a certain price.

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Ranking Democrats Barney Frank and Charles Schumer led their party to block these efforts in the fall of 2003.

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With origins in the 14th century, it is thought to refer to the "off-fall" from the butcher's block, meaning the less desirable parts.

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It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.

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These trade regulations block imports, respectively, when world prices fall below a pre-set threshold and when imports exceed expectations.

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The election follows the political fall out over the tendering process for a new clinical block at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.

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Democrats fall just short of that, so Republicans have been able to block deals.

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Medicaid is converted into a block grant whose value grows at the rate of inflation starting in 2013, so its value will fall even further behind projected healthcare costs than Medicare vouchers (producing big savings for the federal government).

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