But in the Los Alamos case, the damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back, " as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect.
Nonetheless, it serves an important purpose by reminding folks that there are only so many FBI agents, so many prosecutors, and so many dollars available to fight crime.
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The app also shows a leaderboard of agent check-ins in a given area so that agents can see how they compare vs. their local competition.
If everything goes according to plan, retired general-turned-special emissary Anthony Zinni will arrive in Israel on Thursday with a dozen or so CIA agents in tow.
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So far agents have mostly stuck with the GDSs: rebuilding their IT systems to make direct connections to airlines is expensive, and their contracts with GDSs may make it costly too.
If so, IRS agents take a closer look to make sure that politics isn't the group's primary activity.
So which free agents in this year's crop of over 200 have a history of contributing a lot in exchange for relatively little?
So says their agents, their families, and their adoring fans who now have the assurance of seeing their stars shine locally for years to come.
By charging hotels 15% of the room rate instead of the 25% or so that other agents traditionally got, Priceline has expanded into the largest online hotel booker in Europe.
Relations have become so strained that some agents who are working out their notice periods have been locked out of their offices.
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Some 5, 000 British police officers were on hand to protect the president, along with the 700 or so secret-service agents Mr Bush brought with him.
So some of the agents have been structuring long-term deals for their clients that will pay the players signing bonuses next year even if no baseball is being played.
"The closer in you get, there certainly is more call volume into the airlines and into our customer service agents, so the sooner you can try to get rebooked, the better, " she said.
The Barry family in Denver wants TSA agents trained so everyone with a medical device or condition can make it through security checkpoints safely, said Sandra Barry, whose daughter's insulin pump was replaced after its ill-fated trip through Salt Lake City's airport.
One key topic: Whether new rules would cover just independent agents, who work for themselves and sell products from two or more insurers, or so-called "captive" agents, such as the typical State Farm agent, who sell products of just one insurer.
The technology is improving fast, and so is the choice of agents.
At the end of the war, David Smiley was invited to join SIS. As far as he knew, he was one of only three ex-SOE agents to do so.
The ATT store which I walked into had four agents all talking so busily among themselves that they provided me no service whatsoever when I appeared as the only customer in their store.
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The founder of the company, Mounir Shita, envisions a network of connected devices that use so-called smart software agents to track your friends, suggest food at a restaurant and even find someone to paint your house.
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Dowling said Pure Networks is sharing its APIs with partners like AOL and D-Link so they can write both agents and applications that leverage the Network Magic platform to the enhance the value of their hardware and software offerings.
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Agents used to be so outnumbered by the crowds flooding across that they could not give chase to all of them.
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Steps taken so far include bringing home the agents involved, stripping them of their security clearance and questioning that has included at least one polygraph exam.
The computers at Los Alamos weren't tagged, so to execute a search, the agents had to apply for a formal warrant through the Justice Department.
The stoves will be sold on consignment so women could be employed as selling agents, giving them a vital opportunity to earn a living while helping other women.
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Indeed, violence isn't so much the choice of free moral agents as a law of nature that flows as predictably from certain circumstances as rivers flow to the sea.
While we still don't know the release date, price or if it will contain the changes made in the 2002 edition of the flick, Universal posted a trailer for the Blu-ray (embedded after the break, note that at 0:25 seconds the FBI agents are holding guns, so it appears to be the original) that confirmed a digital remastering from the 35MM film, 7.1 surround sound and "hours of bonus features".
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They will not be empowered to arrest anyone, and they will be withdrawn after a year or so, as the promised extra Border Patrol agents are trained and deployed.
"I hope that those who have been concerned about Fast and Furious, whose investigation established that it was the local ATF agents in Arizona who initiated and so poorly implemented that effort, will join with us to close the loophole in the law that Mexican drug cartels are continuing to exploit, " Leahy said.
These franchise agents must also meet aggressive sales targets so, with sales slowing, some stores have been reporting fictitious contracts.
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