Word: quash
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...that she'll do that. In fact, Palin's recent moves suggest that she is hoping to run out the clock so that no report can be issued before Nov. 4. According to a Bloomberg News story, Alaska senior assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill has threatened to try to quash any such subpoenas, citing "a clause in the state's constitution that protects individual reputations from McCarthy-like smear tactics...
...States only two weeks ago, Moscow has cut off energy and fuel supplies to Abkhazia and has sealed the border with the rebel-held region. Still, Georgian officials fear that their country faces complete collapse unless the Kremlin sends Russian troops to help recapture the Black Sea region and quash the spreading rebellion in the Transcaucasian state...
...that the force's former commander in chief was paid $450,000 earlier this year. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes identified the army as Honduras' and the commander in chief as General Walter Lopez Reyes. Secretary of State George Shultz attacked the GAO report as a politically motivated attempt to quash the contra assistance campaign, but Administration officials privately acknowledged that contra leaders had indeed skimmed aid money and that bribes to Honduran army officials were an accepted method of buying their support for the contras. They maintain, however, that most of the money was properly spent...
...Court's ruling as ammunition. Both Tushnet and Barnett agree that Chicago, which has banned gun ownership since 1982, is likely to be the setting for the next major gun rights battle. (Chicago mayor Richard Daley called the court's ruling "a very frightening decision" and vowed to quash challenges to the city's ordinance...