Word: derail
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...much of a factor," Coughlin said. "It shouldn't derail...
...while the Republicans were arguing for isolationism and opposing the Marshall Plan and NATO. The Democratic Party created and passed anti-discrimination legislation beginning in 1964, while current Republican Storm Thurmond, now a leader of his party and future Committee chairman, staged the longest Senate filibuster on record to derail the Civil Rights...
...Saddam Hussein once again looked poised to carry out an epic feat of self-destruction. By sending 20,000 fresh troops to breathe heavily across Kuwait's border and then withdrawing them after America clenched its fist, he managed to remind the world that he was a loose cannon, derail the momentum toward lifting the U.N. sanctions that are bleeding his people dry and burnish the prestige of an American President sorely in need of a foreign-policy success. "It was a godsend," said a U.N. diplomat at the Security Council. Exulted a State Department official: "Saddam blinked, he turned...
Complacency on his part will permanently derail the peace talks, since Rabin, Peres and the Israeli people will eventually lose the capacity to continue in the face of unchecked Palestinian terror...
...week with what White House chief of staff Leon Panetta called a "cry of anguish," most Republicans were willing to abandon years of doctrine in order to score some political points. And, as was the case on health-care and campaign-finance reform, the President's own party helped derail its leader's program: more than 75 Democrats refused to support GATT, and 50 more were wavering. One Democratic congressional aide watching the votes erode marveled at how powerless the Clinton White House was to stop it. "They are," he said, "uniquely capable of losing the unlosable...