Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their relationship was of the can't-live-with-can't-live-without variety. But in the end he was not well rewarded. A communist, he ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...
...reduce Hillary's debt. (That amount, however, did not wipe out her debt entirely. It isn't clear who paid off the several thousand dollars remaining, but Madison Bank retired the loan.) Jackson was aware of McDougal's questionable activities, and had warned Clinton that McDougal might be running afoul of the state's banking laws. But Clinton apparently ignored the warning...
...Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands for hunting and fishing. "If the state gets the lands,'' predicts Republican state senator Al Bishop, "they will go on the sales block...
...broke the city's rent control laws,overcharging his tenants. He had a responsibility[during the debate over Question 9] to say thatthis was a law that he ran afoul of. Instead, heattempted to sort of squirm his way out," Turksays...
...long as ALG remained the central issue, Najarian's defenders could claim he had done nothing more immoral than run afoul of federal bureaucrats. But earlier this year, university officials disclosed irregularities in the surgery department's handling of federal grant money, including apparent diversions of funds to support the ALG program. Investigators also released documents suggesting that Najarian sometimes cheated on his expense accounts. Seven years ago, for instance, he allegedly asked the corporate sponsor of a conference held in Stockholm to reimburse him for $4,122 in travel charges after submitting a bill to the university claiming...