Word: roadblocking
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...general failure to appreciate the complexities of this system, I am convinced, is a major roadblock to the President's goal of welfare reform. Your article dramatically portrays the shadow and substance of the many myths that plague welfare recipients and should help lay some of them to rest. It also highlights a number of the difficulties faced by those who administer the present inadequate system at the federal, state and local levels...
...death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...
According to retired Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, who has concentrated on court congestion in recent years, a key roadblock is the over-compartmentalizing of judges. Most cities assign one judge to handle all arraignments, another for all motions, and so on. Prosecutors and even public defenders are often assigned the same way. Thus all have to start from scratch at each level. Justice Clark and other experts urge that a single judge should handle each case from start to finish. The experimental reform has already speeded up court work in San Francisco, Cleveland and Pittsburgh...
...this time, however, the family had contacted relatives who called the police and a squad car had the trio under surveillance. The roadblock was set up in Billings Square in Worcester where all exits were covered...
...German Ambassador Count Karl von Spreti was murdered when the Guatemalan government refused to meet the guerrillas' demand for the release of 22 political prisoners. Curtis C. Cutter, U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnaping by gunning his car around a roadblock. MAY 1970: Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, former President of Argentina, was kidnaped from his home in Buenos Aires and killed...