Word: afoul
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...with fans, opponents, tour officials and umpires. At the French Open, he called the chair umpire "spastic," and he got into an ugly run-in with an umpire at last year's U.S. Open. More recently he rang up a $105,650 fine, now under appeal, for allegedly running afoul of ATP Tour rules. He called the tour's actions "an absolute joke...
...months. The New York City field office had primary responsibility for the investigation of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. But the case had gone badly from the start. The Yemeni authorities had been lethargic and uncooperative, and O'Neill, who led the team in Aden, had run afoul of Barbara Bodine, then the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, who believed the FBI's large presence was causing political problems for the Yemeni regime. When O'Neill left Yemen on a trip home for Thanksgiving, Bodine barred his return. Seething, O'Neill tried to supervise the investigation from afar...
Corlette said that she wasn’t aware of any Harvard researchers currently running afoul of the proposed law. However, stem cell research by Harvard scientists like Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton will ultimately require somatic cell transfer techniques to be put to therapeutic...
...lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning in 1979, after his car was hit by a drunk driver...
...adoption. Rosie, it's not being gay that would make you a frightening parent Losers JOHN ASHCROFT Attorney General in trouble over student visas being sent to 9/11 hijackers. In his defense, they had nice extracurriculars and excellent essays RUSSELL CROWE Mr. Oscar's next film runs afoul of the Screen Actors Guild. Perhaps the film's title, Why Actors Make the Best Scabs, is the issue JERRY SPRINGER Bush says his talk show made terrorists think the U.S. was weak. Obviously they didn't see how far a midget hillbilly can throw a chair...