Word: derail
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...newly empowered Faculty may take steps to derail the review, now into its third year, in what would be a major defeat for Summers, who played an integral role in the shaping of the report on general education released this month...
...machinery that DeLay and his pastor built threatens to derail DeLay. He was slapped three times last year by the House ethics committee for violations of House rules, and finds himself potentially facing more serious trouble on multiple fronts. Each day seems to bring another embarrassing headline and more lawmakers' being caught up in allegations of impropriety that surround the lobbyists--many, like Buckham, former DeLay staff members--who have traded on their access to him. The Washington Post reported last week that DeLay (as well as six other Representatives from both parties and several congressional aides) had over...
...Hecklers have tried in their own way to derail the President but with little success. If the Presidential events were any more tightly screened they'd require a blood test to get in. But last week there were three eruptions in Louisville and three more in Memphis. One protestor shook her fist about the war, but the others were doing their yelling in opposition to personal accounts. But their taunts were a little too wonky to punch through. "I'm with you on personal accounts, but what about add-ons," yelled one man from the balcony, referring to private savings...
McCain oversaw the investigation that helped derail the $23 billion Pentagon deal to lease Boeing tanker airplanes to the Air Force. Investigators found that the company's CFO had violated conflict-of-interest rules, and the scandal landed both him and a high-ranking Pentagon procurement official, who said she had steered other contracts to Boeing, in jail. McCain says he is not on a vendetta against Boeing but continues to have concerns about the Pentagon's procurement processes. "There are a lot of big-ticket items," says McCain. "It is going to be a very tough year." --By Sally...
However while indiscriminate terror is not a recipe for long-term success in governing a country, if carried out viciously enough it most certainly can derail a democratic election. The ability of the insurgents to stir up enough violence to either delay or render useless the upcoming election is the most immediate and serious threat we face. Whether you supported the war or not it seems clear that the best outcome now is for a democratically governed Iraq, and the next several weeks will determine whether or not this is a possibility...