Word: foul
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...first Columbia foul that set up the lone goal of the game...
Women are the suspicious sex: so a certain amount of husbandly experience -- as well as a long-established convention of popular culture -- teaches us. For decades Blondie has been routing Dagwood out of bed to investigate strange noises downstairs. And Nora Charles always sniffed out foul play ahead of blithe Nick, despite the fact that he was the professional detective...
Young America cried foul that one of the new administration's own breed, a private man from small town America, could so abruptly break off his obligations to a younger generation disenchanted with Washington and in desperate need of his kind. Without any real explanation, no one could understand this violation of trust...
...drew fire for alleged jingoistic Japan-bashing and sour blame-laying. Actually, the novel dealt with how those very actions have paralyzed effective American response to organized, and sometimes ruthless, competition. Crichton even added an afterword to erase any ambiguities in his "message"--that American business should not cry foul every time it loses in a trade war and must end expectations of being coddled after decades of dominance. But a long line of critics, including Labor Secretary Robert Reich, saw only paranoid vendettas and tinges of racism...
...start-ups have already received more protection from Clinton Democrats than they received in the entire deregulated Republican 1980s. When Reno Air cried foul after Northwest Airlines tried to squeeze the smaller carrier out of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle markets last March, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena pressured the bigger carrier to withdraw under the threat of antitrust action...