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  2. Rules for traffic lights - Wikipedia

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    The definition of the intersection area is a square where the two streets overlap marked by the inner lines of each crosswalk. (Occupying the space inside the crosswalk lines is itself a traffic infraction, but different from gridlocking.) This gives meaning to the anti-gridlock slogan "don't block the box".

  3. Banking regulation and supervision - Wikipedia

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    In the banking union (which includes the euro area as well as countries that join on a voluntary basis, lately Bulgaria), the European Central Bank, through its supervisory arm also known as ECB Banking Supervision, is the hub of banking supervision and works jointly with national bank supervisors, often referred to in that context as "national ...

  4. Box junction - Wikipedia

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    A box junction in London, pictured from atop the Monument in 1969. A box junction is a road traffic control measure designed to prevent congestion and gridlock at junctions.The surface of the junction is typically marked with a yellow criss-cross grid of diagonal painted lines (or only two lines crossing each other in the box), and vehicles may not enter the area so marked unless their exit ...

  5. Gridlock - Wikipedia

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    Gridlock on a network of two-way streets. The red cars are those causing the gridlock by stopping in the middle of the intersection. Gridlock is a form of traffic congestion where continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill.

  6. Bank regulation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The term "affiliate" is broadly defined and includes parent companies, companies that share a parent company with the bank, companies that are under other types of common control with the bank (e.g. by a trust), companies with interlocking directors (a majority of directors, trustees, etc. are the same as a majority of the bank's), subsidiaries ...

  7. At cross streets, one motorcycle would block the intersection and the rest would drive through. Red lights were ignored. ... the dictionary definition includes a large group, a nomadic group, and ...

  8. Banking Standards Board - Wikipedia

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    The Banking Standards Board (BSB) was a body established in April 2015 in the United Kingdom, to promote good practice among banks and building societies.The original idea for the body came from the work of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards [1] and the subsequent Lambert Review, [2] which called for a new type of organisation, different from traditional regulators, that would ...

  9. Blocking - Wikipedia

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    Blocking (statistics), in the design of experiments, the arranging of experimental units in groups (blocks) which are similar to one another; Atmospheric blocking, a phenomenon in meteorology of large scale stationary pressure cells; Blocking, in the western blot technique, a process to prevent unwanted binding of antibodies to a membrane