Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from germs and so clean that it was necessary to give her only one bath a week. There was the usual diaper change, but little other laundering; a single, 10-yd.-long sheet was stored on a spool at one end of the compartment and rolled through into a hamper on the other end as it was soiled; it had to be laundered just once a week. The box was partially soundproofed, and a shade could be drawn over the plate-glass window...
...important as funds. How can any law make up for the free time and free space that the press and TV lavish on an office holder? How can the public discern the line separating the political and the official acts of an incumbent? Even without effective spending limits to hamper their challengers, more than 90% of House members who seek re-election win another term...
...statement released yesterday, Barringer said, "we feel that unpublished information gathered when reporting the news-be it notes, tape recordings, or photographs-is ours to keep confidential. To open such unpublished information to the scrutiny of outside agencies would, we feel, severely hamper the Daily's newsgathering ability. It would break down the relationship of trust between newsmakers and news-gatherers that is vital to accurate and complete reportage...
...freeze our economy? I could not agree with most of these objectives. We can start with selecting of certain industries that are essential to the basic economy of the U.S., and they must be protected in some way. Beyond that, I don't think that we should hamper the free flow of trade to the building in of rigidities that are likely to strangle...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...