Yet, more recently, and with little fanfare, ABC Family has taken to green-lighting series by female showrunners with idiosyncratic visions.

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Hong Kong officials, meanwhile, have denied green-lighting additional gambling activities beyond horse racing and the lottery, the South China Morning Post said.

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The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had also sued Kern County last October over its green-lighting of the 300-megawatt North Sky River project.

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The Federal Trade Commission is said to be skittish on antitrust grounds about green-lighting the purchase by the two music wholesalers, who jointly run smaller Web sites columbiahouse.com and totale.com.

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