Word: obstruct
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...roommates dejectedly return to Quincy to reload on beverages. The sixth floor seems to be a haven of opportunity, with two smaller parties happening a few doorways apart. A fresh keg stands in one room and gangs of thirsty undergrads do not obstruct access to its contents. Houlihan is prodded into participating in the most popular of keg acrobatics—the stand. Ferrante feels obliged to match the feat, though more beer drips out of his mouth than is actually swallowed. A little after 1 a.m. the activity begins to wind down and a group of first-year women?...
...everything he has at developing a nuclear bomb. Weapons inspection is a tedious process, and the first phase will be spent just figuring out which installations need to be inspected. If the inspectors are ever on the verge of finding something important, Iraq can always throw them out or obstruct their work, since there is no enforcement mechanism. At the end of this spectacle, we’ll be in exactly the same position as we are now, except that Iraq will have had more time to prepare...
Local residents deserve no less blame for the persistent bad blood as they continue to obstruct Harvard’s projects at every turn, even when the initiatives will cause little harm. In an effort to thwart Harvard’s planned art museum, the Riverside Study Committee recommended rezoning the Mahoney’s site with a prohibitively low height limit of 24 feet on any future construction. An art museum would not be as disruptive as Peabody Terrace, and Riverside residents would serve their own interests best by working with the University to modify existing proposals to address...
...obstacle to taking these steps goes beyond Ashcroft’s hard-line policy. The vague wording of the Second Amendment leaves open the possibility that a future Supreme Court will reinterpret the Constitution the way Ashcroft does. The amendment has the potential to obstruct future federal gun control legislation that could prevent thousands of needless deaths. Therefore, the American people and the individual states should vocally push for the repeal of the Second Amendment...
...into small bags, or preferably pipes, which break apart and become shrapnel in a blast. The 22-year-old who detonated a bomb outside the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv last June lifted his hands as he blew himself up, eyewitnesses reported, apparently so that his arms wouldn't obstruct shrapnel flying off the belt around his waist. One bombmaker on Israel's wanted list has started lacing bombs with rat poison, presumably to multiply the number of casualties, although the technique has yet to succeed, according to Israeli intelligence officials...