Word: derailer
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GEORGIA LAWYER BOBBY LEE COOK HAS MADE A career of goading government. His latest battle is an eleventh-hour effort to derail the Justice Department's prosecution of Christopher Drogoul, the banker accused of making $4 billion in loans to Saddam Hussein's regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
Alan Dixon didn't know it at the time, but his support of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas last fall would help derail his 42-year political career. Like many women around the country, Carol Moseley Braun was outraged at how the white, clubby, male-dominated Senate handled Anita Hill's sexual- harassment charges against Thomas. Braun decided to do something about it. Last week the 44-year-old Cook County recorder of deeds beat Dixon and lawyer Al Hofeld for the Democratic nomination...
...Klerk's advisers are concerned that some of the 876,000 who voted no may turn to terrorism and cause both physical and political damage. But De Klerk pledges to take a stand against ultraright forces and not to allow them to derail his plans for reform. "I expect a small radical core group will not just lie down and accept it," he says, "and will be thinking of doing some wild things. But that is what the law is for, and we will apply...
...champion. But a disastrous tumble early in his short program effectively took Browning out of gold-medal contention, throwing the field open to a crop of skaters who have been perennial best men but never the bridegroom. The suspense was compounded by a rash of injuries that threatened to derail not only Browning's medal hopes but also those of his two main rivals, Victor Petrenko of the former Soviet Union and Todd Eldredge of the U.S. In the end, Petrenko capitalized on difficult jumps to take top honors, though his stiff finale offered more stumbles than magic. He didn...
Unlike Oliver Stone, I'm not going to posit the existence of a conspiracy to derail the American democratic process. Rather, the two phenomena feed each other in a self-perpetuating cycle: people's unwillingness to make complex intellectual discussion part of politics leaves only superficial "character analyses" (i.e. rumors) to be debated, which then lowers the standard of the political process further and makes it harder for a public figure's ideas to be his most important characteristic...