The Fed was chartered to block the natural, market-driven erosion of the banking sector.
On the regulation front, rules meant to block the natural evolution of commerce began to be rolled back during the Carter years, and continued under Reagan.
Still on the block: certain natural gas assets in Western Canada and non-core North Sea assets.
Earlier today, the White House Natural Resources Committee voted to block BP from getting future offshore oil drilling leases.
The Dana shares the same London street block at the Science and Natural History institutions.
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Elixir hopes to design drugs that block the effects of the natural hormone ghrelin, which prompts the release of growth hormone and stimulates appetite.
The grafts typically develop a potentially lethal disease, called 'intimal hyperplasia', which can block the downstream junction with the natural vessel in just a few months.
Window coatings that block UV rays also give the option of natural light while minimizing its clothing-fading side effects.
At their rates of economic growth, disruptions in coal or natural gas supply could prove to be a major stumbling block to their economy.
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NPR's Melissa Block talks with Nathan Erwin, an entomologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and Scott Harvey, an acoustical consultant with the company Polysonics, who has measured the noise levels of the cicada ruckus.
The panel on Indigenous Knowledge noted the expanding recognition of indigenous and traditional knowledge as an essential building block for global sustainability in numerous domains such as biodiversity conservation and management, food security, natural disaster preparedness, climate change assessment and adaptation, amongst others.
California (and the federal government) also pushed the use of natural gas, ignoring the fact that, because everyone had assumed natural gas would remain in a glut, the state and other political entities had been doing everything possible to block drilling, exploration and transportation for new supplies.
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