Word: crimping
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...Beauty Academy of Kabul” (see review, right) traveled all the way to Afghanistan to film the efforts of Beauty Without Borders, a group of American beauticians who have committed themselves to teaching the newly liberated women of Kabul to clip, snip, and crimp themselves to picture-perfection. Mermin spoke with The Crimson in a phone interview last week and will appear for a question and answer session at the opening of “The Beauty Academy of Kabul” at the Kendall Square Theatre, on Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m. The Harvard Crimson: What inspired...
...then return to full campaign mode with a sweep around the country, talking about big issues like immigration and Medicare and throwing the spotlight on a resurgent economy. But the revelation that his Administration has been spying in this country without warrants--illegally, critics say--may have put a crimp in Bush's plan to climb back on top of the agenda as the new legislative session begins. "When Congress comes back," warns a top G.O.P. congressional aide, "domestic surveillance and privacy issues will be all over the front pages...
...Simpfendorfer, an economist at JPMorgan Chase in Hong Kong. Indeed, Shanghai Petrochemical, a unit of the state-owned oil company Sinopec, warned last week that profits in the second half of this year will decline significantly. If other companies feel a similar pinch, as Simpfendorfer fears, that could crimp one of the main drivers of China's current economic boom?spending by companies to build and equip new factories and other businesses. While the economy is still growing at an impressive clip, says Morgan Stanley's Xie, the trend toward deceleration "is pretty clear...
...personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think this would be so difficult," he says. "It's one of the saddest things. It's put a crimp in our relationships." Colgan says he sees very similar dysfunction in the national feuding over Iraq. "You've got the whole line that speaking out against the war is dishonoring the dead," he says. "It's stupid that we can't talk...
...tell them to stop. Factory bosses, in contrast, widely complain that they are still waiting for confirmation from local party and government officials that they can begin exercising the new freedoms they supposedly were granted at the start of 1985. For the first time, Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges of tens of thousands of national, provincial and local party bosses who are accustomed to exerting life-and-death authority over the economy. Ominously but not surprisingly, many seem to be dragging their feet, if not blocking the reforms outright...