Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other suits that Cambridge has lost this summer one to give the city the power to inspect MBTA-constructed sites and another to stop MBTA dynamiting past 8 p.m., have demoralized the city's attempts to thwart the extension...
...landed safely in Malaysia, only to be towed out to sea again by the Malaysian navy. As for the refugees already in camps, their plight has not improved much, despite the promises of the Geneva participants to provide $190 million in additional aid. In fact, bureaucratic delays threaten to thwart many of the good intentions announced in Geneva...
...every move the laxwomen tried to execute. In an impressive display of heads-up lacrosse, the Tiger offense forced a turnover by the Crimson defense and fed the ball right back in for an easy score. The Princeton defense made all the key interceptions and stickchecks they needed to thwart the Crimson's attack...
...avoiding a nationwide strike and exempting military and medical supplies, the union obviously hoped to thwart any move to impose an 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To get a court order under the law, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety...
...annual rate of 6.9% in the final quarter of last year, pretax corporate earnings soared at an annual rate of 26.4% over the year before, and unemployment dropped to 5.7%, its lowest level in 4½ years. All that normally good news suggested an economy growing too fast to thwart inflation...