Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means certain that such largesse can quash the Buchanan threat. Governor Gregg argues that "the President has already overcome the initial hurdle" by showing he really understands New Hampshire's plight. But his father Hugh Gregg, a former Governor now running Bush's campaign in the state, concedes that "some of my best friends, good Republicans," are angry enough to consider a protest vote against Bush. Another hazard for Bush is that many orthodox Republicans might simply stay home, increasing the proportional clout of conservative ideologues who are Buchanan's strongest supporters. A poll published by the Concord Monitor last...
...bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals...
Tito's mastery at playing off East against West left him free to quash uppity subjects at home. Now that the East is out of the game, his successors must heed remonstrations from Bonn and Brussels. Among other things, that's where the money is. And Belgrade, like Moscow, is desperate for financial help...
...NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's capital-punishment project puts it more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide victims. They don't even stay in touch with them." Later this year Congress will consider a measure that aims to enable defendants to quash death-penalty sentences if they can provide evidence demonstrating a racial bias in sentencing patterns...
Rudenstine was at his most disingenuous in his successful effort to quash a democratic student initiative to establish a Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) at Princeton...