Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colombians' ever growing stake in the U.S. narcotics traffic by unleashing the "Cocaine Cowboys," a squad of brutal, ruthless killers. "The Colombian mafia like to hit you where you hurt most, especially your family," explains Lucho Arango, 29, a Bogotá office worker whose family ran afoul of the mafia. According to Psychologist Gonzalo Amador, mafia enforcers will kill their enemies' wives, children, servants and family friends. They have even been known to kill the family parrot "to keep it from talking," he says...
...that deal goes through and Murdoch then tries to take over Warner, he might run afoul of any number of federal laws and regulations. One is the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits foreign ownership of broadcast licenses. Moreover, one of the Chris-Craft stations is in San Antonio, where Murdoch has two newspapers, and the Federal Communications Commission frowns on a company's owning both broadcast and print media in the same locale...
...ironically, Turner is running afoul of the review process he helped create. Agency censors want to delete material from Turner's own book about intelligence gathering operations. They claim that Turner's disclosures would endanger CIA sources and methods...
...Falkland Islands, tragically underestimating the British will to resist and the U.S. reluctance to abandon an ally. Now, with the Falklands debacle behind it and elections for a return to civilian rule scheduled for October, the military's latest attempt to justify itself has once again run afoul of reality...
...reasons for Brezhnev's popularity among his colleagues was that he guaranteed them lifetime job security. With the exception of a few who personally ran afoul of Brezhnev, most Soviet top officials did not resign; they died in office. Now Andropov will have to start replacing as many as 6,000 top officials in every important governing institution in the country, including the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...