Word: thwarting
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...guarantees for their borders, Genscher said the united Germany will include the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and the four sectors of Berlin -- "no less and no more. We do not have any territorial claims against any of our neighbors." Said Chancellor Kohl: " Germany must not thwart European integration. What happens next must not adversely affect the stability of Europe...
...America) with drugs is motivated by greed, not genocide. They seek to extract maximum profits from their sordid business -- and if some of their customers fatally overdose themselves or are gunned down in turf battles between dealers, so be it. Whatever the drug pushers' goal may be, blacks could thwart them by the simple expedient of refusing to use drugs. The question is whether they will be self-interested enough to reject deluded genocide theories and face up to an uncomfortable truth: if someone is trying to kill blacks with drugs, blacks are helping them...
...what was this capability that the Soviet Union supposedly had, which the West must, at whatever cost necessary, be prepared to match and thwart? The short answer: the capability to win World War III. And what would World War III be like? Again, the short answer: it would be like the beginning of World War II. The minds and computers of Western defense experts have long concentrated on two dangers, each a variant of a devastating episode that occurred about a half-century ago. One is an armored attack on Western Europe, a replay of Hitler's dash...
...unable to bring home quickly the 11,000 extra troops it dispatched for the invasion (13,000 were already on hand at permanent bases in Panama). After the far smaller invasion of Grenada, U.S. forces remained for six weeks; the Marines who invaded the Dominican Republic to thwart a leftist coup in 1965 were not completely withdrawn for 18 months...