Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lackluster agent who was enticed into a love affair with Soviet emigre Svetlana Ogorodnikova, Miller, 49, was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of a plot to exchange information about the bureau's antispy work for $65,000 in gold and cash; his first trial last year ended in deadlock. The 20-year bureau veteran, who claimed that he was trying to salvage his career by infiltrating the KGB, faces two possible life sentences...
...well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective named Pharaoh Love. Other successful challenges to the bruiser class are Sara Paretsky's Chicago sleuth, Ms. V.I. Warshawski (Deadlock), and George C. Chesbro's Robert Frederickson, a dwarf with a doctorate in criminology and a black belt in karate...
...still unsteady advance toward democracy. President Jorge Blanco admitted that last week's confusion revived "memories of the days when the democratic process was threatened constantly." Indeed, the ballot count after the 1978 presidential election was halted by the military, forcing President Carter to intercede to break the deadlock. The losing candidate then? None other than Joaquin Balaguer...
...squads then exchanged goals to reach an 8-8 deadlock...
Clarkson is the only team to have completely shut down Fusco this year--Boston College held the captain scoreless in a 4-4 deadlock between the two clubs in November. But Fusco returned to score a pair of goals against the Eagles in the opening game of the Beanpot Tournament, which the Crimson lost...