Word: hamperful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amount of mismanaging could hamper Ron Fairly and Tommy Davis, who should battle each other for the batting crown some year; but until L.A. develops a star of Anron's or Mays' stature (no, Wally Moon doesn't rate), their attack is too diffuse to mean much. The L.A. staff, too, is full of huriers who have been potential greats for a suspiciously long period: Drysdale, Koufax, Williams, Podres, Sherry . . . all deliberate speed and much unintentional wildness...
University officials have indicated that besides halting construction of badly needed facilities for the School of Education, creation of a historic district could hamper maintenance and upkeep of existing buildings within the district. Massachusetts, Harvard, Hollis, Lionel, and Mower Halls, Holden Chapel, Phillips Brooks House, Littauer Center, and all buildings on the Garden St. side of Radcliffe Yard would be affected...
...Crimson's growing injury list is no longer a laughing matter. Chris Norris, who scored a hat-trick against the Cadets, will be slowed by the effects of a collision with a Yalie last Saturday. Although Tim Taylor is out of the infirmary, his injured leg will still hamper his movements; and Ike Ikauniks will be skating with a painful heel injury...
...Swiss government is at last getting around to drawing up regulations for investment companies. But in much of Western Europe, outdated government policies still hamper the funds' progress. In France, the government has yet to put into effect a law authorizing French open-end funds-but allows foreign-based funds to be sold. In Italy, to skirt laws against mutual fund operations, the sponsors of Interitalia, a fund specializing entirely in Italian shares, decided to incorporate in Luxembourg...
...artery by as much as 30%, but that is plainly far better than the total stoppage that occurs in many heart attacks. The doctors cannot be sure whether DeMar inherited big coronaries or grew them by running. What is certain and significant is that moderate coronary disease did not hamper the performance of a remarkably vigorous and long-lived athlete. To the old-fashioned doctor's idea that heavy work or exercise damages the heart, Dr. Currens retorts: "It's probably the lack of exercise that does...