Word: roadblocked
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...This is a very bright and talented young woman," Judge Westbrook told the Globe this week, putting the issue in perspective. "But every time her life started to take off and go in the right direction, somebody was throwing a roadblock...
...Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep him out of jail...
...relations when the two countries agreed to exchange liaison offices. These are the first formal ties since the U.S. left Vietnam in the spring of 1975 at the end of the war. The U.S. has been steadily warming its relations with Vietnam for the past two years. The major roadblock to full diplomatic linkage is the U.S. demand for more help in locating the more than 2,000 American servicemen still missing. The new American liaison office, which will be headed by a Vietnam war veteran, should make it easier to resolve cases of missing military men. Bosnian Cease-Fire...
...Harvard men's basketball team has a major roadblock in its way, and it is named Adonal...
...trial significantly from the earlier March estimate. The Simpson team said that a "separate, time-consuming" -- and undoubtedly much-publicized -- pretrial hearing would bias the sitting jury and thereby violate Simpson's rights. It represents a complete turnabout in the strategy adopted so far of hurling every roadblock -- including the Kelly-Frye proceeding -- to keep the DNA evidence out of court. Still, says TIME Los Angeles reporter Elaine Lafferty, it isn't a complete capitulation by the defense on the DNA issue. "This might be a legal strategy by the defense to challenge the DNA evidence on a piecemeal basis...