Word: hampering
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...said yesterday that a shortage of construction and operating funds as well as concern selling art from the Fogg's collection to help finance the extension would be controversial enough to hamper the Fogg's efforts to find a new director were factors in his decision...
What angers U.S. and European officials is not the marketing prowess of Japanese exporters, but the complex regulations that hamper foreign businessmen in Japan. Examples abound. An American maker of aluminum baseball bats was developing a good market for his product until the Japanese softball association ruled that his bats could not be used in tournament play. Reason: the label stamped on them supposedly made them defective. Companies selling products in aerosol spray cans complain that their cans must be 25% thicker in Japan than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, the outfit that inspects the incoming aerosol products...
...rousing sight in home video is the between-innings sequence of Intellivision's Baseball, in which, to the sound of cheers, one team trots in to the bench and the other sprints out to the field. The game soon becomes tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette is fun to see once, but poor in concept, since neither game works unless money is at stake. Intellivision...
...worth recalling that Truman's Secretary of Defense James Forrestal opposed the creation of a Jewish state in the coldest days of the cold war, partly because he feared that Israel and America's commitment to it would hamper the twin strategic tasks of keeping Joseph Stalin at bay and keeping the peace in the oilfields and tanker lanes. Truman overruled Forrestal-but for reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab...
...well heeled and of sportive bent. The nation basked in the golden autumn of Pax Britannica, with almost nothing to grouse about but the grouse (not enough of them). For Americans who could afford the fare, the country was the social and cultural equivalent of a well-stuffed hamper from Fortnum & Mason. So is Mr. American, a splendidly entertaining English adventure novel of the old school...