While the federal government routinely obtains one 30-day extension of filing deadlines in its Supreme Court cases and not infrequently obtains a second, the 98-day extension in this case is very unusual, even by federal government standards.

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For one thing, Germany obtains about 35% of its electricity from nuclear reactors.

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Toward the end of the two days, one Samsung executive joked that perhaps once Samsung obtains government approval for its new devices, the NSA could get U.S. President Barack Obama, well known as a BlackBerry and iPad user, to take up a Samsung device.

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It takes nine votes to pass a resolution, but even if a resolution obtains the requisite votes, it can be killed by a single veto by one of the permanent members.

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