Word: derailed
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...newborn in a hip sling hands out oatmeal cookies; moments later, a bunch of yahoos heckles the moderator, asking for equal time. Observing from the sidelines is Dave Hill, vice president of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew of ranchers show up to forecast in plain terms how the monument will destroy...
However Harvard is making efforts to derail the legislation...
...extended period without violence an invitation to the naysayers to commit outrages? After all, if you're an Islamic Jihad leader, your objective is to stop any resumption of the peace process. And it's very easy to do, because one dramatic terror attack may be enough to derail it. Back in the early years of Oslo, Yitzhak Rabin factored that in by uncoupling terrorism from the future of negotiations. He famously said, "We will pursue peace as if there is no terrorism and fight terrorism as if there is no peace." But it's unlikely that Sharon is thinking...
...could prove disastrous. It would be a travesty of the bill's intent if nationalists ended up sharing power on the island while still supporting more radical underground groups accused of perpetrating violence and crime. That would likely provoke a get-tough reversal of Corsican policy by Paris - and derail projects to speed devolution to other regions...
...days away from an initial public offering, the folks at Netscape surprised Davis with a $5 million bill for the privilege of featuring Lycos on the Netscape start-up page (it had always been free). Lycos had only $1 million in revenues, and this Netscape larceny threatened to derail the IPO. But Davis and his team threw together a more disciplined business model, squeezed through the IPO hole and raised $40 million in a day's trading...