Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard might well appear dormant by comparison to 1968. Disinterest and confusion hamper the initial efforts of liberals trying to boost the campaign of Sen. George McGovern. (After all, the polls--which have assumed an absurdly prominent role in a Presidential year tainted by media overkill--show Massachusetts within President Nixon's reach...
...spate of regulations. Their purpose is understandable: to keep out the flood of homeless, speculative cash -much of it in irredeemable dollars -that can make a betting game out of currency values and disrupt nations' economies in the process. The growing danger is that the proliferating rules will hamper normal trade and investment as well...
However understandable such environmental crusades may be, and however remiss the utilities may seem in retrospect, the battles hamper power production at the very time of the growing shortage. Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, the utilities will have to meet tough air-quality standards by 1975, and the cost of those standards will help to triple the price of electricity by 1990. Nonetheless, the Federal Power Commission predicts that the utilities must build about 300 new power plants generating 910 million kw. to meet the anticipated needs of 1990. The expected cost: $500 billion...
...benefit of well-off suburbs cannot be serious." The suburbs, on the other hand, had a complaint of their own about the proposed limit on their ability to get their children the best that money can buy. Said Superintendent Christopher Warrell, whose district includes Sea Cliff: "This would hamper districts that attach more importance to education." Another suburban superintendent went further: "If a limit is put on us, I'll probably go shoot myself...
...fighting, as the disastrous results of the invasion of Laos showed last February. Nixon must have U.S. troops to do the job for them. And the only way he can use U.S. troops without a politically damaging increase in casualties is extensive bombing of North Vietnam to hamper the flow of supplies to troops in and around South Vietnam...