Word: foiling
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OPEC wants to play Alan Greenspan to the world's oil economy, but rogue member Iraq and the U.S. economic slowdown could foil the oil cartel's best efforts. The cartel - which meets out in the open to fix prices, despite the fact that half its members are also members of the World Trade Organization, whose rules forbid such practices - is due to convene in Vienna next week, and is expected to agree to reduce the world's oil supply by 1.5 million barrels...
It’s not too surprising, then, that Jamal must prove himself, on his own terms, in this hostile environment. F. Murray Abraham’s Professor Crawford provides Jamal with a suitably flat and pompous foil. Suspicious that Jamal’s talent for writing is illegitimate—“He’s a basketball player. From the Bronx”—Crawford endeavors to have him expelled. As Crawford’s role becomes prominent late in the film, Abraham dutifully slogs through a series of embarrassing scenes, trying to maintain some...
...Harvard won just one bout the rest of the way and Columbia shut out Harvard 9-0 in the foil to seal the win for the Lions. It was Columbia's second double-digit victory over Harvard in as many years...
...Olympic team alternate Erinn Smart, the Lions overtook the Crimson in the foil by a 7-2 mark. Smart went a perfect 3-0 in her three matches...
...duets - six - between George Jones and Melba Montgomery. Of course, Jones' best-known singing partner was his third wife, Tammy Wynette, with whom he had such hits as "Golden Ring" and "We're Gonna Hold On," but it is with Montgomery that he found his most ideal vocal foil. Even George is on the record as saying...