Word: derail
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...firms are starting to defy this unspoken rule. A team of PE players joined forces with publicly held Vornado Realty earlier this year to try to derail Blackstone's agreement to buy office giant Equity Office Properties Trust. Although the PE contingent, which included Starwood and Walton Street Capital, eventually dropped out, the ensuing bidding war wound up costing Blackstone significantly more to buy Equity Office in what became the largest leveraged buyout in Street history. Blackstone was forced to boost its bid to $55.50 a share, or $39 billion, from the original $48.50 a share. Another deal jumper...
...There could be no better place to try to rekindle the magic than this state, with its first-in-the-nation primary, where McCain's scrappy insurgent operation in 2000 had ambushed the behemoth George W. Bush campaign, and managed to nearly derail the then-Texas Governor's drive for the Republican nomination. Just as fitting, however, was the fact that McCain chose the Iraq War as the topic of his first speech...
...push through sweeping reform - there's little doubt French society will soon will be prodded to a depth and degree of change it's never seen before. The question now is whether the Socialists can demonstrate enough opposition in parliament to mobilize France's notoriously militant street protesters to derail Sarkozy's reform efforts, as they have done to countless other reformers in the past...
Syria, Lebanese officials contend, is attempting to derail U.N. efforts to set up a tribunal that could try Syrian officials implicated in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. If that's true, Lebanon, a year after the Israel-Hizballah war, could experience another scorching summer...
...demand Russian recognition, and subsequent incorporation into Russia. Hence, Moscow's headache: Should it go along with the Ahtisaari plan, it must insist that the same approach be applied to Russian allies, lest it loses face both with them and with its own increasingly nationalist population. But should Russia derail the Ahtisaari plan on grounds of opposing separatism, it has to find a better rationale to encourage its own separatist clientele...