Word: derailings
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...address as an effort to bolster the Democratic Party’s momentum, which took a hit after Republican Scott P. Brown won a historically Democratic seat in the Mass. senatorial election last week. Brown will be the 41st Republican Senator, giving his party filibuster power that could derail the Democrats’ plans for health care reform...
...that his wife Iris--who resigned her seat in the British Parliament two days later--secured $80,000 in loans from property developers to help her 19-year-old lover open a coffee shop. Though Peter Robinson maintains that he was unaware of the transaction, the scandal threatens to derail the province's already shaky Protestant-Catholic coalition government...
Speaking near his wife's grave on Sunday, Dec. 27, Zardari railed against unnamed forces that were conspiring to derail his shaky and unpopular government and Pakistan's democracy. Writing in the Wall Street Journal the same day, Zardari said that "a litany of ancient charges of corruption - the modus operandi of past plots against every democratically elected government in Pakistan - now threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our government." The blame, he added, lies with those who refused to stand with him against terrorism and his opponents in the media...
...attack. "We want to state categorically that the attack was carried out by enemies of the Niger Delta," said Anthony. "We are aware that the negotiation process is slow. [But] we are in an era of peace and MEND's top leaders shall not ... do anything that will derail the existing peace...
Turkey maintains some 35,000 troops in the north but the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recognizes that divided Cyprus is a potential embarrassment to its new-found ambitions to become a regional power. It also threatens to derail Ankara's long-standing -albeit slow-moving - bid to join the European Union. The E.U. has frozen discussions on eight of the 35 policy chapters towards membership since December 2006 to punish the Turks for not opening their ports and airspace to Cypriot vessels as required. At a summit last week, the E.U. agreed to open just...