Word: derail
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...campaign ad." After an artful Bentsen attack on Bush's ties to Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, Betty Heitger whispered to her husband, "You've got to admit, this guy is very skilled." Halfway through the debate, even the strong Bush partisans were dismayed as Quayle seemed to derail. Die-hard Republican Mike McManus said mournfully, "He's screwing...
...constituents. But then the Cajun legislators flexed their political muscle, and the bill sailed through the state house by a vote of 74 to 22, despite the bitter opposition of black legislators. "This is not only facetious but borders on the ludicrous," exclaimed State Representative Avery Alexander. Attempting to derail the bill, Alexander offered a facetious amendment of his own, designating Irish Americans as another minority group. But ridicule can be a dangerous weapon in the Louisiana legislature: the Irish-power amendment almost passed...
President Reagan is trying to derail the freedom train. This administration has chosen to ignore Blacks and other minorities for the past eight years. Today, King's business is still incomplete. As a nation, we must ensure that his work is finished...
...strikes presented the government with a painful dilemma. Caving in to the widespread demands for more pay would derail plans for economic restructuring. Yet the use of force against strikers would shatter the government's pretensions of openness and democratization, ruining any chance of winning public support for the proposed reforms. The seeming failure of such innovations to produce concrete results and gain popular backing in Poland does not augur well for the future of restructuring efforts elsewhere in the East bloc, including the Soviet Union...
...sense, Jackson is now the beneficiary of all the prior efforts to derail his candidacy. The Southern regional primary that was at the core of Super Tuesday was designed to lay the groundwork for a moderate nominee who could carry Dixie. Instead, Jackson vaulted into contention by capturing roughly one-third of the Southern delegates. In the weeks before Michigan, Party Chairman Paul Kirk tried to grease the way for Dukakis by arguing that whoever was ahead when the primaries were over was entitled to the nomination, even if he was far short of the 2,082 delegates needed...