Word: obstruct
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Opposition to constitutional reform itself comes from those who because of political interest and sentimental conservatism will obstruct any attempt to disturb the status quo. The Governor's Council and County officials quite correctly see their positions threatened, and many in the 280-large General Court (the third largest legislature in the nation) fear that any reform movement would cut its size. Since two consecutive legislatures must pass constitutional amendments, action in that body is unlikely. An amendment legalizing the graduated income tax got past the last session, but next time reluctance to have new taxation and inertial resistance...
Convinced that the boys were hiding something, the Justice Department haled the lot of them before grand juries, and at length a U.S. District Court in Manhattan found 20 of them guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice by lying to the grand juries about their reasons for coming to Apalachin...
...Joseph Barbara in the village of Apalachin, New York; the conclave, raided by the State police, was widely assumed to have been a gangland convention. Almost two years later, twenty of these men were tried in a United States District Court on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. In the course of the trial, the prosecution was unable even to tell what had transpired at the Apalachin meeting. But the public obviously wanted to see the defendants in jail; the jury returned a verdict of guilty and Judge Irving Kaufman imposed the maximum sentences...
...York for consultation, simultaneously releasing Dayal's angry official report, which described Mobutu's regime as a "usurpation of political powers" and blamed much of the Congo's current troubles on Belgium, whose agents, said the report, were flocking back in to "exclude or obstruct" the U.N. itself. Promptly, the Belgians screamed "foul," hinted that Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny himself would fly over from Brussels to reply during this week's General Assembly debate. Then Hammarskjold got word that even the U.S. was upset at the report. "We have every confidence in the good faith...
...Sones admits that his technique involves some risk. Although the catheter is less than half as thick as an average coronary artery, it can still obstruct the flow of blood into the heart. Throughout the operation, Drs. Sones and Shirey monitor the pressure of the blood against the catheter's tip. Explains Sones: "If the pressure starts to flatten out, we know the tip has obstructed the artery or one of its branches. Then we have from ten to 30 seconds to get it out before the heart is starved for blood and the patient has a heart attack...