Word: quash
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...female champion has been ousted in the first round of play, as American Lori McNeil, ranked No. 22, bested No. 1 Steffi Graf. Graf was favored to recapture the title for a second consecutive year, but at Centre Court, McNeil battled whipping winds and Graf's legendary forehand to quash the six-time Wimbledon champ. No. 2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is now expected to take home the top prize, but some are still betting on 10-time winner Martina Navratilova, who is competing on the grass courts of Wimbledon for the final time...
...review ads often pits a newspaper's editorial and business sides against each other. Each Holocaust ad would have given the Crimson more than 1,000 much-needed dollars. But the division isn't always the same, with business aching to run the ad and editorial aching to quash it. Long ago on my high school paper, the sides were switched...
...AALARM could just as easily quash AFARM in a debate. We are completely willing and hopeful that AFARM would be willing to debate us in a public setting," Wasinger said...
...Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign language and math programs last eight years; stellar teachers have the opportunity to remain at Harvard much longer, with periodic reviews...
Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze was under fire on all sides. Only after he threatened to resign did parliament give him emergency powers to quash armed rebellions. Last weekend he was besieged by Abkhazian separatists battling to gain control of their capital...