Word: derailed
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...There it is, a recipe to derail the world's best. Easy, right? Ha. Bollettieri offers a more sure-fire tip. "Take him to a restaurant," he says, "and put a little hot tamale in his food...
...incursion of business practices into our profession has made uncomfortable bedfellows of those with an avocation and those without. The union leaves our professions, especially the nurses, in a fragile state right now. If you derail the dignity and mission of what we do, we'll simply stop and do something easier. Indeed, it's happening. Nearly 150,000 nursing jobs languish unfilled today in the U.S. (We've already lured over every nurse that Ireland and the Philippines had to offer, and now we're recruiting in sub-Saharan Africa.) And these are good-paying jobs. There...
...firms are starting to defy this unspoken rule. A team of PE players joined forces with publicly held Vornado Realty earlier this year to try to derail Blackstone's agreement to buy office giant Equity Office Properties Trust. Although the PE contingent, which included Starwood and Walton Street Capital, eventually dropped out, the ensuing bidding war wound up costing Blackstone significantly more to buy Equity Office in what became the largest leveraged buyout in Street history. Blackstone was forced to boost its bid to $55.50 a share, or $39 billion, from the original $48.50 a share. Another deal jumper...
...There could be no better place to try to rekindle the magic than this state, with its first-in-the-nation primary, where McCain's scrappy insurgent operation in 2000 had ambushed the behemoth George W. Bush campaign, and managed to nearly derail the then-Texas Governor's drive for the Republican nomination. Just as fitting, however, was the fact that McCain chose the Iraq War as the topic of his first speech...
...push through sweeping reform - there's little doubt French society will soon will be prodded to a depth and degree of change it's never seen before. The question now is whether the Socialists can demonstrate enough opposition in parliament to mobilize France's notoriously militant street protesters to derail Sarkozy's reform efforts, as they have done to countless other reformers in the past...