Word: derailer
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...companies, at least not directly. In fact, the Asian problems might not have even registered with American investors if not for the fact that stock prices in the U.S. are so high that they have become hypersensitive to any and all adverse news. "It doesn't take much to derail a market that has gone to the moon," says Stephen Roach, chief global economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...
...TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer adds that while the U.S. will likely press Yeltsin to respect religious freedom, ?it?s unlikely that the issue would be allowed to derail the relationship between the two countries.? Expect loud condemnation of religious intolerance from the White House, followed by a resumption of business as usual...
...this justified? "The IRA denies it, and they're probably telling the truth," says TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand from Belfast. "It looks to be a Republican splinter group. This shows how fragile these talks are: anyone who wants to ? and there are many who do ? can derail them...
...stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro. With Germany racked by increasing doubts about its own ability to make the grade, the French election touched off a new though probably exaggerated round of Euro-pessimism...
...count on their buddies to lie for them. In one case, "all of the recruiters in the station conspired to withhold information from me as an act of self-protection," an investigating officer wrote. In another case, a local commander was reprimanded by his superiors for trying to derail an investigation of sexual harassment on his watch...