11.   Antiwhaling countries blocked Japanese efforts to have commission members vote in secret and to readmit Iceland, a country that refuses to stop commercial whaling.

12.   Another California doctor, Donald Abrams, has contended that the federal government blocked his efforts to undertake research on the effect of marijuana.

13.   At the time, State Department officials said the Office of Management and Budget had blocked their efforts to propose a larger budget increase.

14.   Bates also extended a temporary restraining order blocking any effort to move the team.

15.   Berezovsky said he decided to go public with his accusations of official complicity in the apartment bombings because he feared the Kremlin would try to block the effort.

16.   Block their efforts.

17.   Both senators have been relatively quiet on campaign finance and lobbying issues, and some of their opponents have accused them of blocking efforts to change the laws.

18.   A group of Indians seeking to block state efforts to remove slot machines from reservation casinos is appealing for help from South African President Nelson Mandela.

19.   A federal judge blocked that effort, prompting the players to end their strike.

20.   A powerful coalition of agricultural, industrial and financial groups is simply refusing to pay up and has blocked all efforts at tax reform.