Word: thwarted
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...auditorium, stadium, or lab expansion. In those extraordinary cases. Friends could help raise money to supplement regular education allocations. Some restrictions might be needed to limit any disparities arising from the varying wealth of communities. Without such provisions, wealthy communities could easily satiate their own educational appetites and thwart efforts to raise taxes for less prosperous areas. Executed fairly, a Friends system could increase all taxpayers support for education through a heightened awareness of school needs...
...lobbyists get paid on the basis of their access to White House staff and congressional leaders; every scrap of capital intelligence has outsize value to them. The Congress is now freighted with 20,000 employees, many of whom spend their time plotting how to help or thwart the Administration. The 15,000 Washington journalists feed off these 35,000 sources and frequently mistake their priorities for those of the country at large...
...local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached. The significance of the attack was that in other areas of the country, U.S. military advisers are encouraging the use of Viet Nam-era pacification tactics to thwart the Salvadoran insurgency; the San Miguel assault was the first major guerrilla response to the U.S. strategy. It was also the first time that the rebels have taken the army head-on and held the upper hand for quite so long. In addition, the guerrillas demonstrated more firepower and better coordination than...
...open a strongbox that contains a combination. Then they use the combination to open a vault at the Louisville headquarters that holds a fireproof safe. After opening the safe, they face a strongbox with another combination lock. The handwritten recipe is inside the box. In one final attempt to thwart thievery, the combination to the last lock is concealed in an executive's memory...
University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who has consistently denied Harvard efforts to thwart the union drive, yesterday declined to discuss the specific charges made at the Med School meeting...