Word: derail
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...life organizations are not waiting for the official release of the NIH recommendations; they are lining up political allies in an effort to derail the guidelines. A group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split...
...their concerns were addressed. G.O.P. Senators say they want the fat trimmed from the bill. However, acquiescing to the G.O.P. would create other serious problems: If the bill is changed, it would have to go back to the House for a vote -- a prospect that is likely to either derail it or delay it significantly, observers...
...provide bill for coverage. But this morning, Congressional Budget Office Director Robert Reischauer said their numbers didn't add up. Chafee called the briefing "sobering," but added: "I certainly don't want to throw in the towel yet." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson was less optimistic: "This could derail them...
...North Koreas and the Irans of the world develop nukes and the missiles to carry them, what then? Then our only defense is defenses: interceptors to knock down ballistic missiles before they can reach our soldiers or our cities. Yet the Clinton policy on defenses is delay and derail...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 is enacted. It contains a provocatively novel amendment banning job discrimination on the basis of sex, which foes of the law had hoped would derail...