Word: derailments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week's violence in Soweto seemed virtually inevitable. Two days before the mourners gathered, authorities had announced restrictions clearly designed to derail township plans for a mass funeral for those who had died in the previous week's police crackdown on rent strikers. When outraged Sowetans defiantly ignored the ban, even sacred burial grounds were transformed into battlefields...
...firm's exploits have grown, so has the criticism. Some investors claim that Kohlberg Kravis leverages its deals too far, loading up the bought- out companies with a debt burden that could be fatal in a recession. Another development that may derail Kohlberg Kravis is the federal tax reform movement, which appears likely to limit some of the write-offs that help make LBOs such lucrative investments. That prospect has already slowed the pace of most Wall Street LBO specialists, with the notable exception of Kohlberg Kravis...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive powers. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Byron White criticized the majority's adherence to a "distressingly formalistic view of separation of powers" to derail "one of the most novel and far-reaching legislative responses to a national crisis since the New Deal...
...State Department, for its part, is convinced that it would be "politically disastrous" for the U.S. to violate the numerical limits set by SALT II. To do so, Shultz argues, would outrage America's friends, alienate domestic public opinion, undermine current arms negotiations and possibly even derail the summit. He hopes to enlist the support of U.S. allies at the Tokyo economic summit in May, before President Reagan reaches a final decision...
...that intangible opportunism is Harvard's best chance to derail the Berndt express this afternoon...