Word: derail
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...that the pact is practically dead, each and all will feel free to do as they please. Think about European monetary union as a train made up of 12 cars, which represent the national economies. Unless all of them move at the same speed, the train will derail. But the problem goes deeper still. The European Union is embroiled in a tortuous constitution-making process that brought its Foreign Ministers to Naples late last week. Britain, Poland and Spain have been voicing grave misgivings about relinquishing ever-more sovereignty to this non-nation that goes by the name of Europe...
...Zimbabwe in TIME Time To Talk SRI LANKA A joint committee set up by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should work out new power-sharing arrangements by Dec. 15, Kumaratunga's spokesman announced, and so end a bitter tussle between the two rivals that threatens to derail efforts to end the 20-year-long civil war. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten travels to Colombo this week to help resolve the three-week-old crisis, sparked by Kumaratunga's accusation that Wickremesinghe's government has been too lenient in peace negotiations with Tamil Tiger rebels. MEANWHILE...
...sure that the need to plan for Allston, now—which is very important—need not derail or delay other plans for athletics,” Kirby said...
...Minnesota’s Angela Buergis, who was seeded fifth, threatened to derail Bergman just as she began hit her stride...
...everyone has seen how helpful the U.N. has been in sending teams to clean the city, preserve the forests, improve the water supply, help upgrade the health-care system and rebuild and develop the city. Those who carried out the attack are bloodthirsty, murderous villains who are trying to derail the process of rebuilding our country. Many Iraqis believe Baathists and Saddam Hussein loyalists were responsible. These criminals were created by Saddam. He picked them from Iraq's worst social class and gave them money, high positions in his regime and weaponry. Now they have sunk back to their worthless...