Word: hamperful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pursuit of freer trade, President Kennedy last week vetoed a proposal to double tariffs on imported bicycles. Such a reversion to protectionism, he explained, "would hamper our efforts to improve the position of American industry in foreign markets...
...open plains before Baghdad where Kassim can bring his armament into play. Moreover, Mustafa does not have enough men to occupy any sizable towns. The Iraqi air force is taking a rising toll of women and children through its attacks on Kurdish villages, and this pressure may hamper further Kurdish advance...
...makes no sense at all," he declared, "to make speeches against the spread of Communism, to deplore instability in Latin America and Asia, to call for an increase in American prestige and an initiative in Eastern Europe-and then vote to cut back the Alliance for Progress, to hamper the Peace Corps, to cut off surplus food shipments to hungry Poles." The President expressed hope that the "irresponsible action" inspired by Passman would be corrected...
Meany opposed any Administration action-even the practice of suggesting wage guidelines-that might hamper collective bargaining. What Meany feared most was that the Government's interference in labor-management negotiations might in time evolve into restrictions upon the right to strike. Said he: "We've got to maintain the right to quit work. Sometimes it's good to have a strike. We've had cases where there have been bus strikes and everybody said the strike would paralyze everything. Well, it didn't happen. Sometimes a strike shows both management and labor that they...
...wouldn't be surprised if Pres. Charles de Gaulle were playing for time," Macridis asserted. The French President's "reluctance grows all the time, because De Gaulle fears that England's entry into the Common Market may diminish his own power within it and hamper its development...