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To avoid stifling competition, the administration should allow tariff exemptions for smaller firms that choose to contract with U.S.-based manufacturers.

And so, year after year, through stifling hot summers and snow-dusted winters, people have been camping out in Berry Creek.

Yet there are some who wonder if E. coli's dominance might be stifling us from finding the very best biotech solutions for our problems.

Some stores even staged walkouts, citing the dress code change as the last straw in a slew of new policies Starbucks that employees say are stifling and damaging their ability to properly do their jobs.

The opening days of the championships were dominated by discussion around the conditions the athletes had to contend with - particularly in the endurance events - as temperatures exceeding 30C were accompanied by stifling humidity above 90%.