Word: afoul
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Anti-democratic ranters would run afoul of such a rule, on account of a belief that "the masses are asses." Most of the people who don't vote shouldn't vote, they argue. Perhaps forced awareness as described above would allay some of these fears, but the fundamental premise for removing decisions from the majority of the citizenry is still flawed...
...revealed that two senior officials had decided to leave the agency rather than accept demotions ordered by Director R. James Woolsey. The two men -- John MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...
When the teenage Carlos fell afoul of the Caracas police by joining the communist student movement, his father packed him off to London. The young man soon moved on to Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow's school for grooming Third World revolutionaries. There he proved a lazy chemistry student whose rich-kid antics prompted party officials to ask his father to cut young Ilyich's allowance. He fell in love with a Cuban woman, with whom he had a daughter. He lost touch with them, yet often referred to the woman as his "greatest love." In 1970 he was expelled...
Oddly, just as he was reaching a peak of power, Rostenkowski ran afoul of an investigation that started with postage stamps. One charge against him is that he took $21,000 from the House post office over two years by trading expense vouchers for cash instead of stamps, or for stamps later exchanged for cash. The investigation broadened to include accusations that Rostenkowski used campaign funds to rent a vacant office in a building he owned, put "ghost" employees on his payroll, and acquired ownership of cars he supposedly rented with expense money...
...species have coexisted for hundreds of thousands of years. Up until now, the big cat has always been extraordinarily adaptable and resilient. "All a tiger needs," says Schaller, "is a little bit of cover, some water and some prey." But the tiger has finally run afoul of mankind, an evolutionary classmate that has proved to be an even more resourceful killer. "What will it say about the human race if we let the tiger go extinct?" asks TRAFFIC's Ashok Kumar. "What can we save? Can we save ourselves...