Word: obstructiveness
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...somewhat more significant postwar role, with a special adviser, appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to deal directly with Iraqi groups. Syria, the only Arab nation on the Council, did not vote; France and Germany decided this was a time to co-operate with the U.S. rather than obstruct. The resolution ends the long, deadly trade embargo (except for arms sales), permits the use of oil revenue for rebuilding, and provides for the return of U.N. weapons inspectors...
...only cunning wrinkle in this series is the collective hero: a dozen or more supernal types, each bending the laws of physics in a peculiar fashion, each trying not to obstruct the others while implicitly angling for a spin-off series of his or her own. Though this tactic offers a pleasing congestion, it risks piling on--cluttering the narrative with myriad subplots. Singer figures the audience won't mind as long as the actors have the requisite dishiness. As they do. Janssen can look into our minds anytime. Jackman, on the verge of stardom for three years, grows ever...
...Some members are continuing to obstruct council business due to their own personal agendas. I think it’s time to move on,” said council Treasurer Justin R. Chapa ’05 to scattered applause...
INDICTED. PRENTICE SANDERS, 65, San Francisco's first black police chief, who is scheduled to retire this year; for conspiring with six others to obstruct justice, for their roles in the cover-up of a bar fight involving off-duty police officers last year; in San Francisco...
...Last week's inconclusive report to the Security Council - Saddam didn't come clean, but didn't obstruct the inspections, and Hans Blix's team hasn't turned up evidence of prohibited weapons in Iraq - immediately prompted Britain and other key U.S. allies to call for the inspection process to be allowed to run its course. In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to head off mounting disquiet in his own government and in the broader electorate over U.S. intentions. Blair insisted Monday that if allowed to proceed and escalate, the inspection process would eventually prove the case...