Word: derail
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Even if the Silverman report clears Donovan, questions surrounding the case are not likely to disappear quickly. The issue is no longer whether Donovan is qualified to serve in Reagan's Cabinet, but whether the White House tried to derail the FBI'S investigation of Donovan's fitness for office. The bureau narrowed its inquiry, but on what authority? During the Reagan transition, Fielding and Meese were responsible for reviewing the FBI background checks on all nominees. Fielding has now been instructed by White House Chief of Staff James Baker to prepare a report of his office...
...court date in October and the one succeeding it could derail Harvard's cogeneration train. But even the opposition is readying itself for what some among them say is the inevitable opening of MATEP less than a year from now. If--and it appears to be when--the diesels start operating, the train will head on a new, uncertain and perhaps equally dangerous course. One resident of Brookline promises "a continued battle until they show they're concerned about this area. Unless they want this to go on forever, they have to show us they really care...
...learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend...
That loss didn't derail the Crimson Princeton-bound train, as both Mike Terner and Adam Beren--playing four and five, respectively-rebounded from first-set losses to win their matches. Terner beat Adil Toubia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Beren fought back to tame Lion Don Siegel...
Never a strong believer in the effectiveness or fairness of using higher prices to cut consumption, Eizenstat sniped incessantly at the gasoline tax. He managed to derail the proposal just before Christmas, when Carter's improved standing in the polls made the President even less willing than before to take an unpopular position...