Word: derailer
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...simply upholding minimum standards of human rights. The power of the press to combat corruption and promote government integrity holds the key to long-term prosperity. Self-regulation by well-intentioned governments is a useful, but inherently limited, means of battling corruption. A failure of will or coordination can derail attempts by a government to set its own house in order. Moreover, whistleblowers in third world governments, even more so than those in the West, often face threats and intransigence. John Githongo, appointed by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki to root out corruption, ended up fleeing the country...
Amidst discussion of a controversial bill that threatened to derail the council into what one member called “chaos,” the Undergraduate Council (UC) inched closer Monday night to resolving the future of its Campus Life Committee (CLC). And while the CLC’s future still remains in doubt, many council members spoke out Monday against dissolving the committee and reducing the size of the council. Council leaders said last week that the creation of a new College-funded social programming board has made the restructuring of CLC inevitable. CLC reform was discussed last...
...think most people will see this as a turning point, in a sense that for the last 10 years, there was a sense that nothing could be done in this country in terms of coverage,” Blendon said. Partisan politics didn’t derail the proposal, even though the state’s governor, Mitt Romney, who earned law and business degrees from Harvard in 1974, is a Republican, and the legislature is controlled by Democrats. Unanimously approved in the Senate and passed on a 154-2 vote in the House, the legislation now awaits Romney?...
...Blair and Ahern both suggested the murder may have been a deliberate attempt to derail their plan to finish the job of establishing a peaceful Northern Ireland. "If there are people who are trying to wreck the political process by these appalling and barbaric acts of violence," Blair said, "the single best message is to say 'No, you're not going to succeed.'" That sounds good in theory, but as Donaldson's killing has shown once again, violence usually has the final say in Northern Ireland...
...sciences. These steps can be transformed into galloping leaps in the very near future, and all that is required of us is our passion and will.Along the way, distractions may make it difficult to maintain focus on the review. Nonetheless, changes in personnel and politics cannot be permitted to derail the priorities of the University. Students remain committed to reforming undergraduate education, as we will show today at a student convention on the revival of the curricular review and as we have already affirmed through hundreds of signatures on a petition to resuscitate the review. Now it is time...