Word: roadblocks
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These issues came to a head in February, when the antitrust settlement Gates reached last July with Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman ran into a roadblock in the person of federal judge Stanley Sporkin. In a widely quoted decision, Judge Sporkin rejected the deal, agreeing with most observers, who believe it was too favorable to Microsoft. "It is clear to this court," he wrote, "that if it signs the decree presented to it, the message will be that Microsoft is so powerful that neither the market nor the government is capable of dealing with all of its monopolistic practices...
Nightmover ended on the morning of Feb. 21, 1994, when Ames left his house in Arlington, stepped into his Jaguar and drove into an FBI roadblock a short distance away. The arrest of Ames and his wife came one day before he was scheduled to leave for Moscow on CIA business. The FBI was not about to risk Ames' going to Russia and perhaps never coming back. Slouched in the back of the car that took him to the bureau's office at Tysons Corner, Virginia, Ames repeated to himself again and again, "Think . Think . Think." He knew that...
...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...