Word: derailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...