Word: hamper
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...consumer-confidence index at election time is above 99, the incumbent's party remains in office; anything lower signals defeat. Since 1968, only Al Gore, who lost in 2000 despite a high consumer-confidence number, had been the exception. But the low October figure of 92.8 didn't hamper Bush...
...witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought something was wrong." Moreover, Stone says, Dragnet helped save the Miranda ruling, which was unpopular with law enforcement and some politicians, by showing viewers that reading suspects their rights didn't hamper the cops' ability to interrogate them. And former Los Angeles County public defender Stan Goldman, now a Loyola law professor and legal editor for Fox News, says Quincy had lawyers concerned that juries would demand fingerprints for every case...
...believes its Fallujah bombing campaign has killed some top al-Zarqawi operatives, and military officials hope the latest mission will hamper his network's ability to operate. But the insurgency has shown a clear ability to regenerate itself after losses. And the rebels continue to adapt their tactics, adding TNT to their IEDs, for instance, to make them more lethal. In Ramadi they have begun attacking more at night; in Fallujah they have dug into defensive positions. A U.S. military battle-planning officer in Fallujah says the raid left a "big intel wake," information that will be useful later...
...license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it. If you have a great fishing rod or a snowboard, get brackets and hang it on the wall or from the ceiling. If you know you're a slob, you need a great-looking hamper. It's a place where you know your clothes are. When you come home, drop your clothes in it, and if you don't have any clean clothes, you know where to go get something to wear again. It's not about changing people. It's about living...
...debt." Still, if the state didn't take such a big chunk of her income every month, she says she would spend more rather than squirreling it away. Multiply Moser's lament across 42 million German workers and it's easy to see how high taxes hamper consumer spending and bog down the country's economy. Indeed, having to pay more taxes for less service is a common lament these days in Europe, where taxes and social charges have risen sharply over the past 30 years and are now among the highest in the world. Adding together corporate, personal, social...