Word: hampering
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...worried that Dole might toss his boxer shorts in the garbage instead of the laundry hamper," I said, right at the beginning of the interview, "I'm sure they have staff at the White House to sort out that sort of thing. Also, we don't even know if Dole wears boxer shorts. So far, Bill Clinton is the only presidential candidate who has made his preference in undergarments a matter of public record...
...True," John said. He's always been a man willing to see both sides of an issue. "Also, as it happens, our garbage pail looks quite a lot like the laundry hamper." He brought both into the living room, where we were conducting the interview. They didn't look at all alike...
...Hyde, and, more specifically, the Jerry Lewis classic by the same name. In this version, however, the professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously psychotic dean at Klump's university (Larry Miller...
McNealy espoused a more libertarian perspective for approaching the Internet and emphasized that extensive regulation will hamper freedom of communication...
...determine the trade balance and trade barriers do not affect such flows. However, trade barriers do hurt the American economy by denying it the benefits of producing for and competing in an additional market. In particular, such barriers, by limiting the number of goods individual U.S. industries can produce, hamper the efforts of American companies to achieve economies of scale the greater efficiency achieved by producing a large amount of a certain product...