Word: derail
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...first, the Cantabs--who must still be considered a notch below the Lions--must derail a Columbia program that until about seven years ago was one of the doormats of the league...
High interest rates, though, helped derail the whole tactic. They drove bond prices down just when Drysdale was counting on them to go up. The ploy was exposed in May 1982, when Drysdale defaulted on $160 million in charges it owed Chase Manhattan. Ultimately the bank lost a total of $270 million in trading expenses and interest payments. During the summer of 1982 Drysdale's parent company went out of business, and Chase Manhattan took over the portfolio of Drysdale Government Securities...
College officials have previously noted that Harvard's legions of class presidents and community service workers often inexplicably derail their involvement in these endeavors when they arrive in Cambridge...
...security forces. The recent upsurge in their activity appears to reflect the mounting frustrations of the ultraright, which has seen its power gradually erode over the past year. The right failed to gain control of key ministries after the March 1982 elections, and it has also been unable to derail the government's programs to redistribute land more equitably. Making matters worse, in the right's view, the Salvadoran Peace Commission, sponsored by the interim administration of President Alvaro Magana, has begun a "dialogue" with representatives of leftist guerrillas...
That presidential pardon was enough to derail a no-confidence resolution in the Senate. Even so, insiders were betting that the Secretary's days were numbered. G.O.P. strategists view Watt's loose lip as a political liability. Said one top White House aide: "It hurts us on the 'sensitivity' issue...