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It directed the State Department "to intensify efforts to achieve cooperation of other governments" and the CIA to "intensify use of liaison and other intelligence capabilities and also to develop plans and capability to preempt groups and individuals planning strikes against U.S. interests."
The WP lead says several Internet firms today will announce actions designed to preempt regulation.
In one case the court told a manufacturer that there can be no monopoly on love : “No one may preempt the field with respect to marks having `love' as a portion thereof and thus exclude all others from the use of any mark composed in part of such word.”
And it could run them even more, because mandated free airtime might preempt other programming and/or non-political paid advertising.
preempt state and local laws to the extent such laws are inconsistent with this rule.