Word: derailer
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...delay does not yet mean war can be avoided. Bush has been at this pass before, notably last autumn when sharp international and domestic criticism threatened to derail his drive for regime change in Iraq almost before it began. Yet he maneuvered adroitly around and over the obstacles to advance his cause by pushing a tough inspection resolution through the U.N. The coming days will continue to work for and against him. But whatever the behavior of nations outside Iraq--and barring a change of behavior or a stroke of luck inside Iraq--it seems unlikely that Bush's game...
...Gaza since December 1, and while the Tel Aviv bombers may have carried out the first terror attack inside Israel in six weeks, attacks on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza are a daily occurrence. A White House spokeswoman dubbed Sunday's attack an attempt to "derail the peace process," but that sounded like language from a different era: Israelis and Palestinians know there is no peace process to speak of, right now, only vague talk about a "road map" - yet to be released - that both sides ought to follow. But the basic stalemate remains the same: Sharon...
...really afraid that the train might derail,” said Lin, who will be traveling home to New Jersey...
...attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance and planted a homemade bomb in the other - but just to be safe, the government slapped a 30-km/h speed limit on trains in the capital. Intelligence experts elsewhere worried...
Injuries, though, are one thing that could derail the Crimson before it even gets started. Lacking the plethora of players competing for positions at the bottom of the lineup it has enjoyed in the past, Harvard could struggle if players are forced to miss matches. The Crimson’s vulnerability was only exacerbated by Ryan Abraham’s decision to take a year off after his rookie campaign, although sophomore Gaurav Yadav’s return from his own year away could help Harvard compensate...