Word: hamper
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...costumes, despite their drawbacks, are subordinate to other aspects of the play. Poor acting and directing might hamper success far more. Richard McElvain as Tartuffe and Janet Rodgers as Elmire stand out, but the entire cast of Tartuffe is strong. McElvain marches solemnly up and down stairs, hands clasped or crossed across his breast, head bent in humility, eyes wily and darting everywhere. He smacks his lips greedily when fingering Elmire or household cash...
Dean Fox, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and Coburn will meet with the auditors to "get a sense of the underlying business" of HDNS and work out any obstacles which might hamper an HSA takeover, Coburn said. Also under discussion will be the use of College discretionary funds to aid HDNS and student organizations...
What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...
Charles Hambelton, staff attorney for the Boston School Committee, said yesterday that the amendment will not affect Boston schools, because city busing programs are well-established, but he added the bill could hamper school desegregation in other areas...
Thurmond wants to give the states more control over voting rights, to reinstitute the death penalty for serious crimes and to eliminate some of the due-process protections suspected criminals have acquired under Supreme Court decisions but which police officers claim hamper their work. He also wants to increase federal sentences for the possession of marijuana and to tighten immigration laws. Argues Thurmond: "I don't think people ought to be allowed to come into this country just because they want to come here." In his view, most of the Cubans, Haitians and Asians arriving in the country...