Word: derail
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...There's suspicion that it's an elaborate plan to stall and thus derail [plans to admit women]. That's not the case. Women are going to enter the club," said a Fly graduate member who wished to remain anonymous...
Hill also said he feared that members admittedthis year may not support integrating women intothe club and would derail the plans...
Shoemaker also said that some Trustees wanted to criticize the University earlier in the year, but did not want to derail then-President Sheldon Hackney's nomination as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They probably figured that Hackney, who became a national media punching bag over the Jacobowitz case, and whose analysis of the DP incident was that "two important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict," was doing a fine job of derailing himself...
...emerge. Among the President's allies are the major lobbies for the elderly, who like the new benefits for drugs and long-term care. Says John Rother, legislative director for the American Association of Retired Persons: "There are people with a lot at stake who will try to derail this plan: the insurance industry, the National Federation of Independent Business." The small-business lobby, led by the NFIB, has targeted the plan's requirement that all employers pay at least 3.5% of payroll for health insurance. Most small businesses that don't offer health insurance "just cannot afford...
...that Arafat and his police force are coming, are more cautious. They realize that Arafat has transformed himself into a moderate in order to make peace and will have to curb his radical enemies. Still, they make it clear that they intend to do what they can to derail the interim plan. "We resisted the Israeli occupation," says Riad Malki, a West Bank spokesman for the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "and we will resist Palestinian autonomy...