Word: derail
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...While Home Depot's stock has recovered 46% over the past 18 months, to about $35, it is nowhere near the $60 highs of 2000. Some analysts say fears that higher interest rates will deter home-improvement spending are hurting the stock. Nardelli doesn't think interest rates can derail Home Depot, nor is he looking for radical ideas. Wal-Mart made the risky move into selling groceries when it went through a period of sagging sales in the mid-1990s and built a wildly successful new business. Instead, Nardelli is stretching the company's existing businesses. He is expanding...
...insignia, sat in the courtroom while a colleague tried to testify. Last week, some 50 men wearing T shirts featuring a red rose, Lukovic's trademark tattoo, came to the courtroom to watch their ex-leader make his statement. When he appears again in court next month, he could derail the trial altogether. Prosecutors were not able to interview him in preparing their indictment and now run the risk of being wrong-footed by his testimony, whatever its factual basis. Western diplomats and other analysts say Lukovic may have been motivated to carry out the assassination to prevent his arrest...
...nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete." Whether or not the U.S. could build such a Star Wars shield was less important than the Soviets' knowledge that they themselves never could. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) quickly became an obsession of the Soviet leadership. Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to derail it through propaganda and arms control. But Reagan steadfastly refused to give...
...determine who is responsible for oil supply problems. Unfortunately, supply is not the major cause of these price rises. Runaway economic growth in China and India is, and it has been for some time now as the two Asian giants continue to modernize their economies. Short of trying to derail economic growth in the world’s two most populous nations, there is very little the United States government can do to stop worldwide demand for oil increasing. Much like the experience of the U.S. during the early 1980s, there is little that can be done to reduce...
...April 14 Assailants fire mortars at a police camp in Yala; authorities in Pattani thwart an attempt to derail a train...