Originally built in the 1850s, the Kings Point Estate hit the luxury real estate sale block in mid-October.

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They made the change right before putting the home on the block in mid-winter, and the path kept icing over.

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Likewise, who would dominate the region's steel mills, especially in Luxembourg, which could provide a basic building block for mid-20th century military power?

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In the mid-1990s Vertex chemists crafted compounds that block a key kinase protein that unleashes toxic immune-system molecules in arthritic joints.

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One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.

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Eisenhofer says the seat holders are prepared to go to trial in mid-November and will file for an injunction to block the deal soon after NYSE and Archipelago file their final S-4, a Securities and Exchange Commission form for shareholders.

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If you go back to block trading in its heyday in the New York Stock Exchange in the mid '90s.

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Antonio Fazio, the governor of the Bank of Italy, spent months this year employing unusual methods (with the tacit approval of the government) to block a Spanish and a Dutch bid for two of the country's mid-sized banks.

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