Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum and Representative Marge Roukema lobbied Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to quash the nomination...
Like many a superstar before him, Barney is learning that fame can be a heavy burden. A legal team is scrambling to quash a rash of Barney impostors. And grandiose plans to market and export the creature may, through overexposure, make him a victim of his own success. Still, not a bad fate, given what happened to the rest of the world's dinosaurs...
...insisted that neither Bush as a candidate nor the party as an institution could afford to waffle "on a high moral principle." The Bush campaign's representatives at the session quietly agreed. Campaign officials, who control the platform, will permit no compromise language and will probably be able to quash efforts to debate the issue at the Houston convention. A representative of the National Abortion Rights Action League murmured, "This is an exercise in futility...
...indeed, a sad commentary that an organization such as the Harvard Law Review, an scholarship, was capable of producing such an appalling piece of work and that institutional mechanisms were not in place to quash...
...Revue's publication and are deeply saddened and troubled by its contents," said Schulman. "It is, indeed, a sad commentary that an organization such as the Harvard Law Review...was capable of producing such an appalling piece of work and that institutional mechanisms were not in place to quash...