Word: quashing
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...Bush administration is clearly determined to quash dissent; they’ve made a pretty good go at it already. But at the rate they’re heading it looks like they’ll have their hands full for some time to come...
James sat quietly, knowing that his father, who controls not only BSkyB but also the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox television networks and newspapers around the world, would quash any dissent. But BSkyB shareholders may want to stick around to see how the show plays out. After a mediocre early business career--he started a rap-music label and lost News Corp. money in a bad Internet play--James proved himself at the company's Star TV. A karate enthusiast, he transformed the lossmaking Asian satellite broadcaster into the largest private TV player in India and penetrated the booming...
...armed forces. Harvard’s antidiscrimination policy may have been made with the best of intentions, but ROTC's presence would not imply Harvard’s official imprimatur, and would hardly intimidate or threaten homosexuals on campus—the symptom the policy seeks to quash...
Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
...same time, Conant said he feared that the congressional investigation of faculty members would create an oppressive atmosphere at the University that would quash its academic freedom...