Word: derail
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...past six months or so, he has appeared increasingly edgy, with a fleeting attention span. He started skipping work, and chums feared that he would derail from the fast track. In July he quit his D.A. post to devote all his time to studying for his third try at the bar. Kennedy spent much of the summer in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills. He has a good friend there named Bill Walsh, a onetime Roman Catholic priest and part owner of a hotel in Deadwood. The two of them would run several miles a day, go swimming...
Nothing would derail Chrysler's recovery more effectively than a continuation of the disease that has afflicted Detroit for three years: sickly sales. Last year U.S. manufacturers sold only 5.8 million cars, the fewest in 21 years; Chrysler sold 794,000, but its share of the American market inched up, to 10%. So far this year the industry is doing only slightly better. Through February, sales were running at an annual rate of 6 million cars. All of the Big Three are offering customers cut-rate financing of 11.9% in an effort to spur sales. Chrysler's decision last month...
...Force base at Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, that has been designated as a site for cruise missiles. There to record the scuffles between demonstrators and police was a Soviet television crew. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "They are hoping that popular opposition will derail the INF talks, so they can get zero from the American side for free...
...making the Soviets feel more vulnerable, the MX could derail arms control
...Crimson Aquamen failed to derail Brown on its path to an eighth straight regional title, but staved off a spirited challenge by MIT to take the second of two New England seeds in next weekend's Eastern Championship in Indianapolis...