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Nonfiction Usage

Journalism Usage

China - News: July 24, 2006 — Headline: S.Korean Lawmaker Says Financial Sanctions Placed on North by China. Excerpt: Park says he learned of Beijing's financial steps from U.S. officials during a recent visit to Washington. He says he was told Pyongyang views the steps as "virtual sanctions," He says the measures went into effect around last November, and were timed to coincide with Washington's blacklisting of Macau-based Banco Delta Asia, which was allegedly assisting illegal North Korean activities.

Japan - News: November 1, 2006 — Headline: S. Korea, Japan say North's Return to Nuclear Talks Must Produce Progress. Excerpt: Experts say the blacklisting reduced the North's access to the international banking system. Pyongyang declared it would not return to the nuclear talks until the U.S. sanction was lifted.

North Korea - News: January 30, 2007 — Headline: US Envoy Says Washington Not Interested in 'Endless' North Korea Talks Without Results. Excerpt: The financial talks deal with the blacklisting of a bank in Macau that Washington says aided North Korean counterfeiting and laundering money. Washington imposed the sanctions in September 2005, just days after North Korea signed a pledge with China, Russia, Japan, the United States and South Korea to dismantle its nuclear capabilities.

North Korea - News: January 31, 2007 — Headline: One Bank, Many Issues Involved in US-North Korea Financial Dispute. Excerpt: North Korea has always denied sponsoring counterfeiting, narcotics trafficking, money laundering and other illegal activity. U.S. officials say evidence of North Korean illicit activity reaches back decades, and they maintain that the blacklisting of BDA was purely a law enforcement matter, separate from the six-party nuclear negotiations.

North Korea - News: February 9, 2007 — Headline: US, North Korean Envoys Discuss Ending North's Nuclear Weapons. Author: Kurt Achin. Excerpt: Shortly after making that pledge, Pyongyang began boycotting the talks, to protest the U.S. Treasury Department's blacklisting of a Macau bank that had dealings with the North. U.S. officials say the bank had helped North Korea launder money from counterfeiting and other illicit activities. North Korea says it wants the sanction lifted before it will agree to any progress in the nuclear talks.

Palestine - News: September 6, 2003 — Headline: EU Foreign Ministers Concerned Over Abbas Resignation. Excerpt: The blacklisting of the Hamas political wing is a first step toward all EU states freezing Hamas assets and possibly prosecuting its activists.

South Africa - News: December 26, 2006 — Headline: World Diamond Council Eyes Alleged Zimbabwe-South Africa Gem Traffic. Author: Blessing Zulu. Excerpt: It has been alleged that gems from a mine in Beitbridge whose ownership is in dispute, and diamonds from Marange, are being sent to South Africa for fraudulent Kimberly certification. This could lead to the blacklisting of Zimbabwean diamonds.

United States - News: May 21, 2003 — Headline: New Exhibit Explores Impact of American Jews on Entertainment. Author: Doug Levine. Excerpt: Also covered, the blacklisting of entertainers during the early days of the Cold War, the Holocaust as a subject for radio, tv and film, and one of television's highest-rated sitcoms Seinfeld.

Legal Usage

Government of Kuwait. Law 36 of 28/04/02 concerns some judgments of civil and commercial procedures issued in the law of Decree 38 of 1980. The amendment deals with some articles related to the announcement and the legal residence and some articles concerning absence from the hearings. Some articles concern the appeal, petition forms, interlocutory orders, termination of litigation and order on submission. Moreover, blacklisting is included. Also some articles relate to pronouncing arbitrators judgment and to some other amended judgment in the law. Published in Al-Kuwayt al-Yawm on April 28, 2002.

Governmental Usage

Worker Rights in Guatemala. Actions alleged have included physical harassment of a union leader by a private security agent on company property, force resignations and firing of some union members, threats of blacklisting, shifting production to other facilities, and creating an antiunion climate by promoting rumors that the factories would close as a result of unionization.

• Preface iv
• Nonfiction Usage 1
• Journalism Usage 1
• Legal Usage 2
• Governmental Usage 2
• Bibliographic Usage 2
• Encyclopedic Usage 4
• Lexicographic Usage 6
• Index 11