21.   Entrapment has become a common defense to the increasing number of sex crime prosecutions resulting from government sting operations on the Internet, where agents typically pose as children.

22.   Even if it does, it would likely be sent to Clinton as a separate measure, which he could veto without affecting government operations.

23.   Federal authorities seized the property after the previous owners, identified in court papers as John Terranova and Dominic Imperio, were arrested in a government sting operation.

24.   For Syria to attract the international investment it needs, he contends, there must be truly independent courts and transparent government operations.

25.   Gillespie said they should hang on to a profit-making asset, especially since so many government operations, such as public transportation, lose money.

26.   However, a government operation using the same helicopter -- in many of the same tasks -- could ignore the warning.

27.   If no agreement is reached, government operations could shut down within a month, since no laws exist to authorize temporary funding of them beyond that time.

28.   If not, the government could suffer a partial shutdown because no provisions exist in Mexican law to fund government operations on a temporary basis.

29.   In some cases, certain government operations actually had to be shut down briefly.

30.   In the past, Chinese officials have been reluctant to hire Western financial advisers, in part because of the culture of secrecy that pervades government operations here.