1.  As a result, many agencies immediately deployed investigative resources on the case.

2.  Deadline pressures have forced Thompson to pick and choose how to allocate his remaining investigative resources.

3.  In Washington, law-enforcement officials had far more investigative resources and more knowledge of the mechanics of Mexican corruption.

4.  State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle said a drop in violent crime has freed up investigative resources.

5.  That means the investigative resources of major newspapers could not be used to lever ethics violators from the House of Representatives.

6.  The government has chosen, as David Cay Johnston reported in The New York Times last week, to focus its limited investigative resources on the poorest Americans.

7.  The result is a highly autonomous prosecutor, with nearly unlimited time and money and with access to the FBI and other standard federal investigative resources.

8.  The result is a highly powerful prosecutor with nearly unlimited time and money and with access to the FBI and other federal investigative resources.

9.  Also that year, the federal government helped set up the Utica Arson Strike Force, which combines federal, state and local investigative resources to probe suspicious fires.

10.  Decisions on the scope of the inquiry, and which agencies will provide investigative resources, will flow from the appointment of an outside investigator, Reno said.