Word: afoul
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...prove the point, he was running up huge debts. He has admitted ripping off some of his wealthy acquaintances, notably Lou Wolfson, a Miami financier who in 1968 ran afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission. King told Wolfson he had influence with John Mitchell, soon to be Attorney General in the Nixon Administration. In fact, Mitchell had told King he wouldn't handle the case, but King, claiming Mitchell's firm was charging for legal services, was collecting thousands of dollars from Wolfson anyway -- and pocketing the money. King also kept a $5,000 payment that Wolfson had asked...
...nine Justices agreed with Scalia's view that the ordinance ran afoul of the First Amendment. But four Justices -- O'Connor, Byron White, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun -- took a different approach, attempting to find a way of accommodating so-called hate-crime laws that are drawn more narrowly. Left in doubt were hundreds of campus speech codes and bias-crime statutes throughout the country aimed at racist and sexist conduct...
Othello should be just the beginning of a true restoration. Welles made only 18 films, and at least five might-be masterpieces remain to be seen. It's All True, a three-part Technicolor film Welles shot in Brazil in 1942, ran afoul of censors and studio executives, and the film was aborted. In the late '60s Welles shot part of The Deep (Dead Calm), with Laurence Harvey and Jeanne Moreau. Around the same time he completed a 40-min., stripped-down (no Portia) version of The Merchant of Venice, but somebody stole the sound track. The Other Side...
...tough standards pay off. While some Guardsmark guards run afoul of the law, the firm's record in 1991 was more than twice as clean as that of the New York City police department. And cleaner records translate into lower insurance premiums and happier clients. Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, switched two years ago, after using Wells Fargo. "We weren't satisfied with the quality of the ((Fargo)) guards or the image they portrayed," says Tony Kubica, a vice president at the hospital. "The Guardsmark guards were an amazing contrast...
That sentiment, however, may prove to be wishful thinking. The court has yet to spell out the basis of its decision. A divisive tangle of legal and political problems remains, not the least of which is the question of what happens when the Irish constitutional ban on abortion runs afoul of freedom to move from country to country, guaranteed under European Community law. The episode has aroused enough debate that Reynolds and his government may find their future clouded by this incendiary issue...