Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could help protect the Reagan Revolution from paralysis for another two years, giving the party momentum as it heads into the '88 sweepstakes. Democrats would interpret a Republican defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
...pagers can provide tone or voice messages, many drug merchants prefer the digital version that displays a caller's return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...
Last week Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger responded with understandable incredulity, describing the proposal as "pretty absurd." The Secretary emphasized the "historic separation of military and civilian activities that we've always had in our country, quite properly." He compared the House order to thwart drug trafficking in 1 1/2 months to the folly of King Canute, the 11th century monarch of England who, Weinberger said, "tried to order the tide not to come...
...thwart Turner, Wyman authorized the repurchase of 21% of the company's stock for $150 a share, or $954 million. By contrast, Turner's offer was valued by Wall Street at about $130 a share, and the stock was then trading at about $118. In financing the purchase, CBS ran up its debt from $510 million to a high of $1.44 billion. Before last week Wyman had managed to bring the amount down to $780 million. To help do so, he sold off such assets as the CBS toy division, a 29% interest in the Tri-Star movie production firm...
...would require the President to deploy, within 30 days after passage of the bill, military equipment and personnel to thwart drug trafficking. Although the posse comitatus act of 1878 generally forbids the armed forces from enforcing civil laws, the bill would allow the military to arrest dealers captured in "hot pursuit." Said David Westrake, an official of the Drug Enforcement Administration: "Increased military support is welcome and needed." But a variety of civil-liberties advocates immediately demurred, as did the Defense Department. Said Spokesman Robert Sims: "It is a bad precedent to use the Army as a police force." Other...