Word: obstruction
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Tegam also expressed anger at the way that the media has portrayed the case, saying that the company is not trying to “impede freedom of speech” or “obstruct research projects...
...been praised consistently from student leaders campus-wide for his candor, concern, and genuine willingness to listen. As long as Gross remains so, his administrative additions must be understood as just that—additional administrators to oversee aspects of student life rather than additional layers of bureaucracy to obstruct needed reforms...
...other categories of medications include beta-blockers, which moderate heart rate and the angiotensin system; calcium-channel blockers, which obstruct the tiny ducts in cells through which calcium ions must pass to constrict blood vessels; ACE inhibitors, which reduce the production of angiotensin and thus reduce constriction; and angiotensin-receptor blockers, which allow the protein to be produced but prevent some of it from being taken up by the cells. All four of these have the same goal--to unclench the tensed circulatory system--and they are often prescribed in combination...
...happening. One hopes that some sense of loyalty to the founding principles of our government, where power is supposed to lie with the legislature, would make it impossible. Then again if the USA PATRIOT Act (full title: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”) is any example, maybe we just better hope that HR163 doesn’t get a better acronym...
...this administration needs to learn that democracy doesn’t mix with a policy of secrecy. Secretary Rumsfeld withheld information from Congress and the American public and attempted to obstruct CBS from releasing the evidence in the first place. If Rumsfeld had his way, would the atrocities have ever come to light? Would those responsible ever be brought to justice? The whole world is now asking what else might be going on behind the gates of American detention centers...