Word: derailings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thing about Bush’s celebrated political Teflon is that it rarely involves the candidate alone; rather, a staff of loyal vassals works—and works hard—to subtly detect, derail and discredit all threats, like dogs wandering a minefield...
...reserve. Harvard did not. A weighted ball wafted through the air in the 95th minute—the Crimson defense grew frantic, the Bears’ offense remained stoic—and Brown’s Dylan Sheehan coolly tucked the game-winner into the net.The setback threatened to derail a season that had limitless potential. The Crimson had sported a solid 8-1-1 record and averaged over two goals a game entering the match against Brown. The loss shocked a team that had previously been tops in the Ivy League. The overtime loss was followed by a double...
These and other potential risks were among the topics of discussion in a May 20 debate in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on the subject of what could derail the Gulf boom. The session was co-hosted by TIME and the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. For all of the panelists, political stability was a fundamental concern. Citing the war in Iraq, the turmoil in Lebanon and the failure to achieve peace in Israel, Mohammed Shafik Gabr, chairman of Egypt's Artoc Group for Investment & Development, warned that "things are not getting any better" in the broader region...
...They begin with her unexpected pregnancy. Dev, whom Meera had first fallen for as she watched him compete in a school singing contest, is working as a clerk. But he's a tortured artist, and a baby, for him, would only derail his lingering fantasies of making it big in Bombay as a Bollywood playback singer. Meera's father, meanwhile, still hopes that she'll go to college and make something of herself beyond being a housewife, which for him symbolizes the feudal India of illiteracy and ignorance...
...repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install a pipeline connecting the Caspian Sea and Baumgarten, Austria. That project, the Nabucco pipeline, would circumvent Russia by bisecting Turkey, and would give Russia's neighbors far more bargaining power when negotiating with Gazprom, the state-run gas company...