Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad. Authorities would have to prove state of mind since many items that are tools of the drug trade have perfectly legal uses. Because McDonald's coffee stirrers, for example, can double as cocaine spoons, the restaurant chain recently withdrew them from use. Garden shops, too, could run afoul of such laws: Who can be sure what sort of grass the customer plans to water with his new hose...
Because of his newspaper's "moderate" standpoint, Shah maintains, his daily is not likely to run afoul of the law. He regards the government's "code of conduct" as necessary to prevent papers expressing foreign views from eroding the stability of the monarchy. "Because alien resources are at their disposal," he says, "if you give them absolute freedom, are they going to have objective considerations without alien social and political bias dominating their news? Ninety-eight per cent of the people subscribe to the two symbols of Nepal: our monarchy and independent constitution. The remaining two per cent...
Kennedy also criticized Carter for putting too much stress on military competition with the Soviet Union and for not giving negotiations more of a chance during the crisis over Afghanistan. Yet Carter ran afoul of Kennedy's colleagues in the Senate largely because many of them felt he was negotiating too much and competing too little...
...ZANLA forces, who was killed when his car crashed head-on into a truck while he was driving to his base camp in Mozambique. Officials there, as well as diplomats, judged the death accidental, but among some of his followers there was speculation that he might have run afoul of rivalries inside the guerrilla movement. A magnetic, ruthless soldier, Tongogara, 41, had played a key role in favor of a settlement, and British officials fear it might be jeopardized without him to help hold it together...