Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several groups, including the state's SPCA and the New England Anti-vivisection Society, are attempting to repeal the pound law. Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of the center and professor of Comparative Pathology, is coordinating an effort by several Boston area medical schools to thwart this attempt...
...nation's 349 aging B-52s, whose ability to penetrate Soviet air defenses has been steadily eroding, will be modernized to serve as carriers for the cruise missile. Reagan also declared that research would continue on an entirely new bomber, the "Stealth," whose design enables it to thwart enemy detection by means of its streamlined shape and radar-absorbent coating. The Stealth, however, will not be finished until the 1990s; the refurbished B-52s and the new B-1s are designed to fill the strategic void until the next decade...
...most part, Congress as a whole has always practiced self-restraint in dealing with the courts. Factions within Congress have over and over again tried to hobble or thwart the federal judiciary-liberals in the 1920s when the high court kept striking down their measures outlawing child labor, conservatives in the mid-century years when the Supreme Court struck down some state antisubversion laws. But the anticourt propositions of these and other factions were never enacted by the whole Congress...
After a scoreless first period during which USSR goalie Vladislav Tretiak stymied the defending champions, the Soviets put on a strong skating display to thwart the home team's dangerous offense...
...million Muslims and 6 million Coptic Christians had been mounting in an ever more violent spiral for months. In June, fighting erupted among rival worshipers in a Cairo slum and left at least 14 dead. Soldiers were posted in front of Coptic churches but failed to thwart a bomb attack in August, on a Coptic wedding party, that killed three, including two Muslim guests. Last week President Anwar Sadat made good on his threat to deal harshly with what his government has described as "sectarian sedition." In the most sweeping crackdown since he took power nearly eleven years ago, Sadat...