Word: obstruct
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...NEA’s operations might be enough to confirm this: Teachers who want benefits and tenure in most districts must join the NEA; the union has a male-heavy leadership in a profession filled by women; and, more tellingly, the organization has done everything it can to obstruct even basic education reforms on federal and state levels. The union was outraged with NCLB and Democrats, who flocked to support the law after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ‘54-’56 D-Mass., signed up as a co-sponsor. That was hardly a novel occurrence, though?...
...contrast, he worries that blockbuster exhibitions at other museums—which often have less of a focus on permanent collections than Harvard—can be too “discursive,” resulting in the curator constructing wall-text and catalogs for the show that obstruct looking at the actual pieces...
...stock price fell below $60; and also of lying in her claim to SEC, FBI investigators and federal prosecutors when she claimed she did not recall being told of Waksal's planned stock sale. The jury also found that she and Bacanovic had "willfully and knowingly" worked together to obstruct justice and make false statements , and that she had "willfully and knowingly" tried to hamper the SEC investigation of her stock sale by providing misleading information...
...baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists steeled themselves against the backlash they feared would obstruct a promising field of research--and close off options to the infertile couples the original experiment had intended to serve...
...written about in the previous 12 months. With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased...