Word: thwarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should not be surprising to anyone who remembers that Iraq asked Iran for help during the Gulf War only a few years after the long and bloody struggle between their two countries. Meanwhile Washington, $5 trillion-plus in debt, deploys to the region a military force, deemed necessary to thwart Saddam's ambitions, that costs about $40 billion a year. O. VOLLEY Estepona, Spain
Visitors such as Clinton come to Harvard to speak to as many people at Harvard as possible. In their zeal to promote their own names, the IOP and the Kennedy School deliberately thwart their own speakers...
...disappointed that no mention was made of Microsoft's latest attempt to thwart Netscape's growth: re-engineering the Windows NT product to decrease the number of users who can browse the Net simultaneously. Microsoft knew that Netscape was very popular in the Windows NT environment, and crippled its own product to try to limit Netscape's success. I think business should be about creating the best product and fair competition in the marketplace, not about using control over an operating system to make a competitor's product less effective. It is about time people realize that Microsoft...
...Utilities have typically had a stranglehold so they could thwart their competitors from getting to market and in the wake of [recent orders] that stranglehold is gone," Moler said...
...even Paris is not all roses. One of Ana's roommates, the indubitably evil and indefatigably modernist Celeste, tries at every turn to thwart Ana's quest with hypocrisy, seduction, and general malevolence...