Word: quash
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Many kids try on different names, but, according to Seattle psychologist Laura Kastner, it's usually a pass- ing fancy. It's tougher, she says, to quash an alternate identity when it's been around a while. In other words, we should have nipped this in the bud. (It could have been worse: when Kastner's goddaughter Jane was eight, she changed her name to Roxie--and she's still Roxie...
...support of a popularly elected officer's platform. It is a subtle, but important, difference. In the case of the census project, opponents would have done better to attempt to change the direction of the project--for example, by proposing changes to the census questions--instead of attempting to quash funding for the project entirely...
Although it may appear to outsiders that the Army handled Smith's case with uncharacteristic speed - perhaps looking to quash public interest in its embarrassing nature - TIME military correspondent Mark Thompson disputes that perception. "This appointment has been stuck in a holding pattern for about eight months while the investigation went forward," Thompson says, pointing out that the complaint had been made against Smith many months before the news emerged in the press. That kind of pace, Thompson adds, doesn't exactly point to a desire to jump the gun. At this point, the Army's proactive stance stems primarily...
...surprising that Rudy's allies tried to quash the idea that their man might back away. His aides point to a big upcoming ad buy and an upstate swing this week. His friends concur. "Pull out? That'll never happen," said Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who survived a bout with prostate cancer while running for re-election in 1997. When Molinari got the news, he immediately called Giuliani. "I said, 'Hey, Rudy, welcome to the club.' This is one of the easiest cancers to beat. It didn't stop me, and it won't stop...
...purpose was to perpetuate the applications barrier to entry." Concluded Jackson: "Microsoft's decision to tie Internet Explorer to Windows cannot truly be explained as an attempt to benefit consumers and improve the efficiency of the software market generally, but rather as part of a larger campaign to quash innovation that threatened its monopoly position...