But the protesters managed to halt the business of another influential Washington institution: the law firms and lobbying shops of K Street.
As a compromise, Republicans agreed to halt the business tax cuts if the state's rainy day fund dips below $250 million.
Indeed, she argued that halting the reprocessing business that accounts for roughly half of Sellafield's jobs could help the regional economy.
Business is halted, the chain of payments is broken, there is no currency to get the economy moving and we don't have a peso to pay Christmas bonuses, wages or pensions".
Walter L. McCaffrey, a City Council member from Queens who worked with the city in drafting the law, said the law halted the proliferation of sex-related businesses in residential areas, and even closed a few.
"If you go forward, we will exercise any and all options available to the city of Denver to halt the event and hold the business owners, event organizers responsible for any violations of law," wrote Stacie Loucks, director of the department of excise and licenses.
Yet current customers of Russian nuclear reactor fuel, including Switzerland, France and Germany, did not raise the prospect of halting this business.
Schering-Plough named Fred Hassan, the former head of Pharmacia, as its president and chief executive yesterday as it tries to halt the deterioration of its business and its image among investors.
Britain has, along with several other nations, already banned unaccompanied air freight from Yemen, while FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS), the US companies which carried the suspect printer cartridges, have halted business in the country.
