Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, Canada's ten provincial premiers huddled contentiously in a downtown Toronto hotel to find some way to obstruct or reform Trudeau's latest package, which he hopes to present to the British government by early 1981. Premier Rene Levesque of Quebec, head of the separatist party that decisively lost a plebiscite last spring on the right to negotiate with Ottawa for sovereignty-association, characteristically produced the most biting quote. He called Trudeau's plan a "proposed coupt d'etat...
...into the distance, so that the last tower appears farther away than it actually is. In an indoor piece which resembles a walled-in staircase, Miss abbreviates the perspective by angling the walls together as the stairs recede. She uses color to add to the effect--blackening interiors to obstruct the viewer's perception of depth...
...attempted to obstruct justice or influence the Justice Department." Actually, there is as yet no solid evidence that the Libyans got anything from Billy Carter of value for their money or that his friendship in any way influenced U.S. policy toward Libya. In its most serious interpretation, the evidence suggests that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi might have skillfully got Billy into debt financially with the aim of gaining future benefits. In the most lenient interpretation, Billy had simply hoodwinked the Libyans into thinking he had more influence than he has-and happily taken the money and run without seeking...
However, the other struggle in question--that to end exploitative representations of women--has hardly begun. That struggle, which Stork and Hagen consciously decided to obstruct, deserves greater support than the mere lip service paid it in the second editorial. All people concerned with human liberty, as the eight signators of the second editorial surely consider themselves, have an obligation to speak out vigorously on this issue. To speak instead of a freedom which our society has already granted is not wrong, it is just too easy...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...