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As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, it can veto threatening resolutions, as it did a year ago (just three days before it secured exploration rights to three more offshore blocks near Ramree).
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Beyond family, foremost in my mind was the safety of one of my staff members, who had gone that morning early to a meeting at the American Stock Exchange, not more than three blocks from the towers.
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The planned center courtyard was eight hundred feet across (more than three typical city blocks, or almost the length of three football fields), and he showed it to me with overlays indicating how it could surround St.
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