Word: afoul
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...target smoking colleagues, relatives and restaurant patrons. It spent two years reviewing an expert panel's findings and finally concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke exacerbates bronchitis, pneumonia and other ailments in children and kills 3,000 adults through lung cancer each year. The report, which had seemingly run afoul of political considerations within the agency, was immediately denounced by the tobacco industry...
...ROUNDED OUT HIS CABINET ON THE DAY BEfore Christmas, Bill Clinton proved how hard it is to please all of the people all of the time. First he ran afoul of women's organizations, which complained that females were underrepresented in Clinton's Cabinet. The criticism -- coming just as he named African- American Hazel O'Leary, 55, to be Energy Secretary -- provoked an angry response from the President-elect, who accused women's groups of "playing quota games and math games." Clinton had barely finished fending off the feminists when some environmentalists inveighed against O'Leary, a utility executive Clinton...
...Constitution. Rich corporations are hiring their own police forces. Ross Perot is not the only one, although he's the most visible. Almost every major corporation in America has a "security service," often former FBI and police officials who know how to violate the Constitution without running afoul...
Bush tried but ran afoul of a format for the Thursday-night debate that Clinton had suggested -- reasons for which swiftly became apparent. Questioners, from a studio audience specially selected to consist of 209 uncommitted voters, quickly made clear that they were in no mood to listen to personal attacks. Early on, after the President again chided Clinton for organizing protests against the Vietnam War as a Rhodes scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited...
...Heinicke '93, who was vice chair last year, emphasizes his experience leading the body with David A. Aronberg '93, who was chair last year. His argument is that he knows the corridors of power, the inside workings of the U.C. He says that when a grants check "runs afoul," he knows what...