Word: thwarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only did the heat thwart many top seeds,but winning times were slower than they have beenin the past...
...order directed that all Americans of Japanese ancestry be relocated to inland internment camps in an effort to thwart Japanese espionage...
Travel agents are eager to get federal agents involved because once a ticket is used, the carrier can demand payment from the agency, even for stolen tickets. The agents say the airlines could thwart these crimes by using scanners capable of detecting tickets that have been reported stolen. Such technology would have enabled Hawaiian Airlines, for example, to intercept two passengers who flew from Honolulu to Maui last year with stolen first-class tickets on a plane that had no first-class section...
...Harvard was prepared for us, and we couldn't thwart that confidence," Carmody said. "The things that their guys can do well, they did well...
...least one major problem remains. A lot of experts don't believe the missile shield will work. Even if it can be made to thwart incoming ICBMs, they argue, it will be worthless against the low-tech route that nukes or biochemical warheads would be more likely to take. A renegade state could sneak a nuclear bomb into New York City in a truck or the hold of a freighter, or simply lob a Scud-like missile full of lethal germs into Manhattan from 20 miles offshore, neatly passing underneath the shield. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff "worry more...