Word: afoul
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...into opposition because of his unyielding hostility to the Soviet Union. He joined the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 and was soon elevated to chief foreign policy adviser even though he was then only 32. After the election he joined Henry Kissinger's NSC staff, but soon ran afoul of his boss and was eased out. He still does a creditable imitation of Kissinger's guttural accent...
...opportunity to use their expertise in geological exploration at a time when many other areas of diversification have been blocked. Asks Wall Street Analyst Joseph Clark of Wertheim & Co.: "Where else can the oil companies go?" They can hardly buy up more oil and gas properties without running afoul of antitrust laws. At the same time, oil companies' investments outside of natural minerals have often been bummers. Exxon has reportedly lost heavily on its venture into office equipment, and Mobil has been forced to pump millions into the Montgomery Ward retail chain that it bought in 1976. Moreover, natural...
...Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, it told Johnson he could take any action he chose in Southeast Asia; in the War Powers Act of 1973, it told Nixon that he could not use force anywhere without its approval. All congressional efforts to assert executive authority, however, run afoul of the fact that a bicameral legislature of 535 members has difficulty making up its collective mind, particularly in tricky questions of foreign policy. Individually, too, the legislators are often vulnerable to local pressures-an outcry from Greek constituents agitated about the Turks, or New England trawlermen worried about fishing boundaries...
...military school that Uspensky first ran afoul of authority. In the spring of 1935, he asked a political commissar at the school about some minor disagreements he had with Soviet ideology. "Lenin said that we should pay any price for a communist who takes all dogmas without any thinking or discussion," Uspensky says. "I disagreed with that. I felt that every communist has a right to weigh all the postulates and doubt or disagree up to the point when a decision is taken." Twenty years later, when talking to a government interrogator, Uspensky learned that the party's dossier...
...degrees at Notre Dame, he went to the University of Munich in West Germany to work on a doctoral dissertation. In 1962 he helped found the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. When Nixon was elected President, Allen was appointed to the NSC, but he quickly ran afoul of the man in charge: Kissinger. Relegated to lackluster assignments, Allen quit in ten months, and he and Kissinger have been sniping at each other ever since...