Blackouts on the abduction of reporters were routinely called for during the Iraq war. |
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Occasionally, some individuals say they have blurred vision, feelings of unreality, faints, blackouts or even epileptic fits. |
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The production looks chic in her design, but it is clumsy, with long blackouts after each scene, and lazily paced. |
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News organisations do occasionally agree to news blackouts if they are advised that this will help to secure the safety of hostages. |
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Authorities have arrested high-profile editors, closed publications, and imposed news blackouts on politically sensitive events. |
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More and more governments are tightening controls on media freedom and information blackouts. |
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The young doctor suffered blackouts and colleagues discovered he was addicted to the painkiller pethidine. |
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The vast majority of what is known about alcohol-induced blackouts is derived from research with hospitalized alcoholics. |
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Since age seven, he has been experiencing blackouts at moments of high emotional stress. |
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Pacemakers are usually used to treat an abnormally slow heartbeat which can cause dizziness, fainting or blackouts. |
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In February, up to seven prison staff suffered memory blackouts after their drinks were spiked during a night out. |
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She had also been warned that since her concussion had been pretty bad she might also have some momentary blackouts. |
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Despite still suffering blackouts and mood swing, she succeeded in passing her exams. |
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From the age of 35, Pat began experiencing blackouts and severe fatigue and eventually went for medical assessment. |
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By re-reading his childhood diaries he can transport himself back to the past, to the very moment of his blackouts. |
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Her first step towards recovery came after a visit to a counsellor after she started experiencing blackouts. |
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Some known dissociative states induced by substance abuse include alcoholic blackouts and substance-induced amnestic disorder. |
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All of this seems to be told from Mike's narcoleptic viewpoint, with strange edits, blackouts, and powerful montages of varying film stock. |
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A piece on the May blackouts in Moscow is written as a pastiche of four short essays by Lu Xun. |
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Yet there will still embarrassingly long blackouts for the audience to fidget through. |
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The newscasters are forecasting rolling blackouts much like California endured. |
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At the very least, blackouts disable heating and air-conditioning systems, freezers, refrigerators, water pumps and lighting. |
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Rolling power blackouts and heating cut-offs are daily occurrences across vast swathes of Siberia, the far east and central Russia. |
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American scientists, in a study, also found that predrinking can lead to blackouts and worse consequences. |
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Market manipulation by energy giants produced a power shortage that led to rolling blackouts and rising costs for consumers. |
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Patients with disequilibrium report feelings of light-headedness, faintness, or wooziness, sometimes involving blackouts. |
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In one of the worst blackouts, residents were left without heat and light for nine hours. |
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Many fans that can't afford a generator have rigged up their televisions to car batteries to beat the blackouts. |
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It is a fast, snappy, moving show with short scenes and little time for scene changes during the blackouts. |
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Being informed of what transpired during fragmentary blackouts often cued further recall. |
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Visitors will be able to rediscover the long-forgotten world of blackouts, air-raids, rationing and the Home Guard. |
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In the past, monopoly providers worked together to prevent local or regional blackouts. |
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But whether those steps will be enough to prevent blackouts is impossible to tell. |
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The power corporation instituted rotating blackouts for periods in the community while the power plant was being repaired. |
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In some states, we face the possibility of brownouts or blackouts in peak load periods. |
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Since no electric power plants have been built in the past 10 years, he must endure rolling blackouts at least once a week. |
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When the city suffered blackouts after power failures in 1998, his emergency response team provided the generators to keep the city functioning. |
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The choice is to light from above with the possibility of blackouts, or to use sidelights with no blackouts. |
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While nationwide blackouts should be avoided, however, localised blackouts are likely if the weather turns severe. |
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A grid spokeswoman says there is little danger of blackouts, but power supplies are tight. |
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Dramatic cuts in the workforce result in cuts to maintenance crews and accidents, and equipment-related blackouts increase. |
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Where Mamet's play features blackouts, the film substitutes long, synthesized soft-rock montages. |
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The frequency of entries, exits and prolonged blackouts during scene changes detracts from the performances. |
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Nonetheless, the blackouts in London and on the US East Coast a couple of years ago should remind us that it's not just Bermuda that's susceptible to these events. |
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When mixed with alcohol it can lead to blackouts and amnesia. |
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Patients who incur injuries during blackouts, including tongue biting, tend to have an organic rather than psychogenic cause for their loss of consciousness. |
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There is also a variety of gas lights and lamps, which are especially good to have at home during the storm season when blackouts can occur anytime. |
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He now suffered headaches and blackouts and had to see a neurosurgeon. |
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Although the grid is reportedly 99.9 percent reliable, blackouts or sags in the power supply can cause damage far greater than would at first seem evident. |
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A few summers ago, when I was still temping and the weather was scorching the city, causing blackouts and other horrors, I decided to take a few days for myself and not work. |
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Not since the blackouts of 2003 were the sheath-like towers of the city's iconic skyline etched in such deep black, as opposed to their customary high-wattage glitter. |
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In his youth he has suffered blackouts that repress chilling memories of childhood abuse, death and the absence of his mentally unbalanced father. |
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But in a country where electricity is in short supply and power blackouts are common, the frost-free and energy-efficient technology can be a major handicap. |
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California dramatically reduced power consumption over just a few weeks and prevented rolling blackouts and the economic disruption they would have entailed. |
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The electricity sector is heavily regulated, and the service is mostly provided by monopoly public sector utilities that fail to meet the demand, causing frequent blackouts. |
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The ten, aged 29 to 53, had very severe diabetes from their youth, needed up to 15 injections of insulin a day and often suffered blackouts without warning. |
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He had a wild temper, and when sufficiently enraged could suffer seizures and blackouts. |
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Thus around 80 to 90 percent of the time, electronic equipment is being affected by tiny surges as opposed to lightening flashes or blackouts. |
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During forthcoming solar storms, this could result in blackouts and disruptions in artificial satellites. |
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The device will help clarify time-attendance records which otherwise would be unrecordable due to the blackouts. |
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The more a grid relies on undependable renewables, the more unstable it becomes and the higher the risk of blackouts and brownouts. |
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Crisis Center is a listing of real-time information on transportation, alarms and blackouts. |
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This summer, major blackouts and brown-outs plagued Queens and other boroughs throughout the City. |
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Tepco, the troubled company that has illuminated the night sky of Tokyo for 50 years, has warned that Japan's capital could face blackouts this summer. |
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Back then, Davis was like the proverbial deer in the headlights, paralyzed by blackouts that started in San Diego and within months darkened most of the state. |
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And, unlike in blackouts past, there was very little looting. |
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