Word: thwarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else they are thinking it is much easier to lie down and accept it. Well, I can't do that. I'm not even saying that Marxism is definitely coming here. I'm just saying that I see the danger signs and am trying to thwart...
...Watergate; the conditions that led to the revolution in Iran; the growing self-assertion of the industrialized allies; and the energy squeeze. Carter has not fragmented the Congress or created the fierce independence of its individual members. The wealth and power of the lobbies and their ability to thwart legislation was a fact before Carter got to town. American productivity had run into problems years ago, and Big Government had been on the lips of an anguished majority for even longer...
...Bird before Larry ever dribbled into Boston, who made his reappearance last night against the Sox, Nor can the Baltimore Orioles, who stubbornly refuse to concede the A.L. East title to the Yankees. Nor can the Pittsburgh Pirates, who despite Dave Parker's expressed discontent, seem determined to thwart the Montreal Expos' effort to become the first Canadian assemblage to win a divisional baseball crown...
Ramsay charged that attempts to thwart cooperative development "violated the fundamental guarantees of the federal constitution to the right of property...
...union trying to organize clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area is gearing up for a fall campaign, and University administrators show signs of both wariness and determination to thwart the effort...