Word: hamperred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appearance before the press gave his supporters little reason for optimism. His brusque handling of a few questions -- "Just have fun, get raises and bonuses, play gotcha. I don't care," he snapped at reporters -- revealed that the distemper that drove him from the race three months ago will hamper his path to redemption...
...effect of the decisions by Bush and Clinton is to hamper real debate on abortion. Little can be achieved when both sides are mouthing the inflexible slogans of the abortion extremists...
...housing here at Harvard contributes to a pretty hassle-free relationship," says James D. Coady '92. At other schools, such as Boston University, he notes, restricted visiting hours for guests of the opposite sex can hamper a relationship "My friend at B.U. goes crazy," says the Mather House resident...
...possessing child pornography. Last week the | Supreme Court struck down the conviction, ruling 5 to 4 that "the government overstepped the line between setting a trap for the 'unwary innocent' and the 'unwary criminal.' " In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the ruling would hamper law-enforcement operations. The decision "introduces a new requirement that government sting operations have a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before contacting a suspect...
Declining exports could further hamper Americans' job prospects. While U.S. sales abroad last year provided most of what little strength the economy showed, slumps in Japan and Germany threaten to cut into that foreign business. Moreover, newly cautious Japanese companies seem reluctant to continue making job-creating investments in U.S. factories and real estate, and have already begun to withdraw from the Treasury markets that finance the U.S. deficit. "No more Japanese investors are coming in," observes Georgia State's Ratajczak, "and that's a problem...