Word: afoul
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...congressional pay raise through the House of Representatives in virtual secrecy. Ron Brown, sitting a few feet away, winced. On the road, Jerry Brown's message is a hit with student audiences but draws mixed responses from older crowds who listen, but with some skepticism. The message keeps running afoul of the messenger's past reputation...
This is not the first time the Bush Administration has run afoul of doctors. Two years ago, Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, angered medical researchers by extending a Reagan-era ban on federal funding for experiments involving fetal-tissue transplants, an important field that shows promise for treating many human disorders, including diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Ignoring the recommendations of a scientific panel, Sullivan argued that encouraging fetal-tissue research would lead to more abortions. A measure that would overturn the ban passed the House last week by nearly enough votes to override a Presidential...
This very temperament may have caused him to run afoul of the Democratic Club last fall while working for Silber. When the issue of Harvard Democrats working for Silber's campaign first came up early in the fall, members were quoted as saying that no one in the group had yet organized to work with the campaign. "We said we weren't formally supporting him, and it came out in The Crimson as though we weren't endorsing him," says former President of the Democratic Club Neil A. Cooper...
...only thing that differs between other professions and politics is that there is the requirement for the politician not to be selfish. In the other professions, people act in their own interest, and if they go too far in their own interest, they will run afoul...
...unreleasable because it unwisely sounded just like Les Miz and had to be junked at a cost of $500,000. But the show was radically revamped and opened on stage in London, where it remains the town's hottest ticket. On its way to Broadway, it ran afoul of the performers' union, Actors' Equity, and assorted ethnic lobbying groups. Charges that Mackintosh had not sought out enough Asian Americans escalated into a probe of racial hiring practices on all his shows; at one point he canceled the Broadway engagement in disgust and, he now reveals, reverted Miss Saigon's rights...