Word: quashed
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...long served as a testament to the need for governments to respect the dignity of individual achievement by bringing the best athletes in the world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal. At worst, it would embolden Beijing to commit even more flagrant infractions by showing that the international community will turn a blind eye to its abuses...
...fight. On March 17, after a $10 million, 45-day operation, he reopened and rebranded his 116 stores as the Pizza Company, the first Thai-based pizza chain. Tricon International, the multinational conglomerate that owns Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, has deployed its heavy artillery to quash the rebellion, opening 68 brand-new Pizza Huts throughout Thailand. "It's a battle between market experience versus brand loyalty,'' says Christopher Bruton, managing director of Data Consult, a market research firm based in Bangkok...
...factory. Martin's music has reportedly made him a multimillionaire (he refuses to discuss his wealth). Maybe a clash of egos caused the rift. Or maybe Martin had chewed and spit out all the bubble-gum pop he had in him. Fiction, he says, but typically he didn't quash the talk...
...seems unlikely--the psychiatric establishment uses its clout to quash the idea wherever it can--but more states could require more complete and open records on who gets electroshock. "The problem is it's a roll of the dice," says Brian Coopper, senior director of consumer advocacy for the National Mental Health Association. "Electroconvulsive therapy can be a quick fix, but you can't tell who's going to come out of it with part of his life missing...
...collapsed in Europe; but the Bush team is full of Desert Stormers with scores to settle. Last week?s reports that Saddam Hussein has revived his weapons program provides fuel for the fire of Administration hard-liners, who are determined to turn up the heat on Saddam and quash any effort by allies to end Baghdad?s isolation...