Without this approach, groupthink, overly vocal members or real or perceived hierarchy will suppress (production block) the most promising out of the box ideas.

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It has expressed its anger with Russia not by invoking sanctions like the cutting back of the G8 to the old G7 without Moscow or by seeking to block Russian entry into the World Trade Organization, but by promising to help reconstruct a ravaged Georgia.

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Since 1999, select art funds, investors and private collectors have attempted to profit from rapidly rising auction totals by promising to purchase a work of art at a mutually agreed-upon price before it hits the block.

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