Word: holdups
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...when days and weeks of waiting for the State Department’s approval turned into months and years, Díaz couldn’t imagine what was causing the holdup...
Jerry Bruckheimer is the Michael Moore of criminal law. Defense lawyers love his CSI shows because they have caused juries to demand DNA analysis in nearly every two-bit 7-Eleven holdup. Prosecutors, meanwhile, feel hampered by the fact that 10 eyewitnesses are not enough to satisfy CSI-watching jurors who crave the supposedly conclusive proof of hair follicles on a knife...
...refracting light through a prism and onto the screen. Kodak is developing a competing product set to launch next year. Its chip, manufactured by JVC, uses a liquid-crystal display instead of mirrors and, in a recent demonstration, appeared to match DLP's in quality. "The holdup right now is not the technology--it's the economics," says Elizabeth Daley, dean of the film school at the University of Southern California. The major movie studios and theater owners are tangled in a web of competing interests that is delaying adoption of digital technology--and preventing the industry from achieving hundreds...
...short, stalky white male entered and robbed the bank, according to an FBI spokesperson. The suspect did not brandish a weapon, and no one was injured in the holdup, according...
Statistics tell us that harsher penalties have little deterrent effect on a holdup man. Top executives, however, understand penalties. If they were sure that criminal fraud would get them 10 to 15 years in a penitentiary, they would think long and hard before committing the kind of deceit that went on at Enron. BILL RICHMOND Carmichael, Calif...