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Strenuous opposition from Mr. Karzai, European diplomats and some American policy makers stopped the program from getting off the ground.
"He stopped a real worker-based union from getting off the ground," said Ms. Judkins, who lives in Upton, Me.
The worry is that innovation could be stifled, preventing the next Facebook or Google from getting off the ground.
If certain players are able to buy greater access to Internet users, regulators believe, the playing field will tilt in the direction of the richest companies, possibly preventing the next Google or Facebook from getting off the ground.
Priscilla Phelps, a senior adviser at the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the panel that is developing reconstruction plans, said disputes over land ownership and delays getting money had kept much housing, beyond sporadic projects, from getting off the ground.
In the United States, however, the federal government is against the opening of these facilities, and concerns about abuse of the law and community pushback in some cities has stalled them from getting off the ground.
"Despite the clear conclusion reached by Fannie Mae officials that principal reduction would reduce losses to the taxpayer, this pilot program was prevented from ever getting off the ground," the lawmakers wrote.
Previously, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's V Steakhouse shuttered, after a number of poor reviews, and a planned seafood spot from Charlie Trotter never got off the ground.
The expedition from West Florida never got off the ground, since Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana, had moved rapidly to gain control of British outposts on the lower Mississippi, and was threatening action against West Florida's principal outposts of Mobile and Pensacola.
Yet Marsh and its reinsurance subsidiary will receive fees and business from the company if it gets off the ground.
