Word: scuppering
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...INDICATORS Rising Interest Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group sought to scupper a merger agreement between rival banks UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) with a $29 billion bid for UFJ. It said it would consider SMFG's offer, but would still link up with MTFG, creating the world's largest bank...
...progress," says Parouk Hussin, governor of an autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao established 13 years ago after his guerrilla group reached an agreement with the government. With peace talks between Manila and the MILF scheduled to restart within weeks, the government is trying to prevent a rift that would scupper the negotiations...
...which established the Stormont power-sharing arrangement, such signs of conflict were supposed to fade away. Last week's raid showed that disturbing questions remain. Insisting that the I.R.A. is behaving itself, Sinn Fein dismissed the spying charges as a plot against it by British security agents determined to scupper the Good Friday agreement. While the I.R.A. has broadly stuck to its cease-fire where the British army and police are concerned, it has been implicated in various other dubious adventures, such as a series of vigilante attacks on street criminals in Belfast and a plot to import handguns from...
...homes they or their ancestors fled in 1948 during Israel's war of independence. Under mounting domestic pressure, Barak had suggested he'd accept the deal with reservations but wouldn't sign over sovereignty over the Muslim sites. That issue alone, as Camp David showed, could be enough to scupper a deal. But after three months of a bitter intifada that has seen the Palestinian street increasingly willing to contradict Arafat, the Palestinian leader may now find himself unable to simply sign away the claims of the refugees, even if that had been his original intention. Right now, the followers...
...that would weigh heavily on the mind of any U.S. president. Still, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms lashed out at the decision as appeasement of Beijing, and the Taiwan arms issue may yet dovetail with the labor and human rights concerns of the House Democratic leadership to scupper the trade deal for this year...