Word: thwart
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Good old rotary-style pay phones are making a comeback. The reason is not nostalgia but an effort to thwart drug dealers who use push-button phones as their command posts. The dealers, who typically wear pagers, can send and receive messages via touch-tone phones to clients and colleagues. But most pagers will not work in conjunction with dial phones. U S West Communications, a subsidiary of one of the regional phone companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted...
...them, Pol Pot's party has been given effective veto power -- with predictable results. A peace conference in Jakarta earlier this year failed basically because of Khmer Rouge opposition. Says Cambodia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sok An: "If the international community continues to allow the Khmer Rouge to thwart the will of the conference, then we cannot have an agreement...
...issue. Since polls show that Americans want environmental protection regardless of costs, the problem is not so much awakening the nation to ecological threats as it is getting people to face the difficult choices entailed in dealing with those threats. For a number of reasons, Earth Day might actually thwart that...
...Washington, the aim was to prepare for the upcoming summit meeting between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. By the time the Soviet Foreign Minister arrived for three days of talks last week, the sessions had taken on far greater importance. In the wake of Gorbachev's campaign to thwart Lithuania's drive for independence, Shevardnadze's visit would be watched for signs of the damage done to U.S.-Soviet relations by Moscow's tough line -- and to gauge Bush Administration priorities in the era of waning superpower tensions...
Post, a school which draws mostly local players from the Long Island lacrosse hotbed, will once again attempt to thwart Harvard's season in its very beginnings. The Crimson traditionally plays Post very early in the season, with Harvard prevailing in close games the past three years...