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...The FTC first took action to block the Activision deal late last year, launching a case in administrative court that is scheduled to begin on August 2....
...But in a break with these medications, the antibody also binds to and blocks a hormonal receptor called glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP)....
...Speaking last month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed a sharp fall in interest rates and praised measures taken to block “malicious” attacks on the Turkish lira....
...But a growing regulatory backlash in key markets against e-cigarettes threatens to block marketing efforts targeted at millions of motorsports fans....
...It is tempting to view Facebook’s argument as self-serving, designed to put the brakes on making personal information more mobile in order to protect its current dominance of social networking....
...Stumbling blocks remain in appointing him to the BT role including his share options at Worldpay according to people with knowledge of the situation....
...That will probably be one of the reasons to block self-driving cars from becoming a commodity.”...
...regulations was the only option “given the lack of net neutrality harms to date, the virtually null chance of disruptions to business as usual and the limited options afforded under the statute”, said Doug Brake...
...This is a step up from current technology that steers a car in a line and brakes but still requires the driver to pay attention to the road....
...Last summer, the residents of Wrangelstrasse 66, an apartment block in the trendy Berlin district of Kreuzberg, received an alarming letter from the owner....
...The brake is meant to protect users and ensure that the app is not so packed with ads that they turn to ad blockers or a rival such as Snapchat....
...However, people close to Honeywell say that the bigger stumbling block to a deal was the issue of who would lead the combined company’s management....
...The environmental groups are urging the new Liberal government of Justin Trudeau to reverse his stated support for some pipelines, including Keystone XL, to put a brake on oil development in Alberta....
...Known as a “PD-1 inhibitor”, it blocks a protein called programmed death receptor 1, which stops immune cells from attacking healthy tissues....
...As soon as you block one pathway they find another. But, with a little help, the immune system is the one thing smart enough to keep up.”...
...Dan Cohen, the former chief executive, concedes the main stumbling block was that only Renault had stepped forward as a partner....
...More than 2,000 miles from Moscow, in Russia’s Siberian hinterland, the cluster of Soviet-style housing blocks is here for one reason only: to serve the local smelter....
...Australia, on the other hand, is struggling with a weakening economy as China steps harder on the brakes to stop inflation from getting out of control....
...Its solid, shuttered apartment blocks, unexpected gardens and shopping streets have lost much of their shine in recent years....
...Bund House, a residential development in central Shanghai, got a pleasant surprise when it put a block of luxury apartments on the market last August....
...The Dutch banking and insurance group raised $175m from the sale of a 3.1 per cent stake in India’s domestically owned Kotak Mahindra Bank through block share trades....
...The scheming was the obvious ulterior motive here, to block Microsoft....
...Paris in a float that is expected to value the electrical equipment wholesaler at €6bn-€7bn, while VWR, the pharmaceutical products distributor and another CD&R portfolio company is also on the auction block...
...Meanwhile, the high level of government ownership – accounting for about half the island’s banking assets – acts as a brake on the number of banks going on the block....
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