All this came as the Tories attempted to prove that - unlike the Labour party, which is trying to block Ken Livingstone - its selection process is the most democratic of the lot.

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Old Navy is in the process of adding lanes chock-a-block with inexpensive impulse items.

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In another sign of progress, city officials said they are beginning the process of reopening to the public the six-block site around the bombing.

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Big Bang helped facilitate privatisation, demystifying the share-buying process that many ordinary people had found a stumbling block, thus allowing people to simply walk into their banks and order a parcel of shares.

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They have labeled the decertification an end-run around the collective-bargaining process and filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board attempting to block it.

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The pill, taken in the hospital immediately after a traumatic event, would suppress memory molecules and block an event from being etched into long-term brain circuits, a process that takes between 12 and 24 hours.

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Nomi Prins, who worked on Wall Street and wrote Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, tells NPR's Melissa Block that some people on Wall Street can go through a self-justification process based on ego.

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But while some might see the interview as a mere formality, for others this face-to-face encounter proves to be a major stumbling block in what is already a competitive application process.

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