Word: quashed
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...Game tailgate in line with other university sporting events—“tragic.” But Hill also said he remained undaunted by the more restrictive policy. “Yale is an industrious bunch, and no mere regulations can be wielded against us that will quash our ability to have fun,” he said. “We might even allow some Harvard students to have fun with us.” Hill said he observed tighter restrictions at the Harvard-Yale Game two years ago in Cambridge than at either of the home...
...TIME poll, McCain has almost erased Obama's pre-convention lead among women voters (see following story), and Beltway chatterers are rehashing their questions from the primary about Obama's ability to connect with working-class voters. Palin is now getting some bad press--for trying to quash an investigation in Alaska, for incorrectly claiming she had visited Iraq and opposed the "bridge to nowhere," for appearing hazy about the Bush Doctrine--but Obama is no longer talking about...
What's the best way to quash a false rumor...
...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...
...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...