Word: hampering
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...pulled an old shirt from the brimming laundry hamper to sop up the water on his skin. Then he teetered out to the dining room table and eased himself into the heaped-up clothes he had left there. It took him five minutes to tie the shoelaces. Keys, watch, wallet. The first picture in there was his driver's license, grinning, sun-tanned from water-skiing, so long ago. He flipped the plastic. Oldest son as high school graduate, long gone, ski-bumming in Colorado, a five-minute phone call six months ago was about all. The two girls...
...much of her life for the things she had to do, she now declares, "No one's development at the cost of others! Technology is advanced enough so that we can do this." The other important task of the time is to change the old, pointless images which hamper expectations and hopes. When we remove the stigmas which bar the realization of dreams, then the inner soul will flourish in a body of meaningful literature, regardless of sex, color, or creed...
Today's excessive regulation is not only painful, it is also un necessary. Straitjacket rules imposed by a bulging bureaucracy lift unemployment, slow technical progress, reduce U.S. competitiveness in the world, hamper exports and thus further weak en the dollar. The imperial regulatory juggernaut has clearly gone too far and, in an inflationary and recession-threatening age, the nation can no longer afford the luxury of costly and in efficient Government control...
...good ten minute short. As the film opens, Pedro (Cheech) rises from his couch as his kids play on him, around him, under him. Staggering into the bathroom, he begins to urinate, and upon closer examination finds that what he thought was the toilet is the clothes hamper. Immediately the tone of the whole movie...
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) said yesterday Carter's firm stand will hamper passage of his energy proposals...