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Clinton and Gore thwarted them and defeated Dole by convincing voters that Republican budget cuts threatened Medicare.
He had tried everything in his power to get the information released to Israel through legal channels but was thwarted every step of the way, right up to the top of the Pentagon.
The cable network's animated show about third graders obsessed with violence and bodily emissions "has replaced Beavis and Butt-head as America's premiere gross national product" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics attribute the show's cult following to the timeless power of bathroom humor and to its dark and clever plots, such as a thwarted assassination attempt on Kathie Lee Gifford.
Anti-Semitism, thwarted erotic desires.
The evidence even includes, says the WP , indications that the Chinese CIA boasted that it had thwarted the congressional inquiry.