Word: hamperred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believes the days of wholesale downsizing are fast approaching an end for leading-edge companies like North Pole, Inc. At least for the next few years, our plan is to pursue profits the old-fashioned way: ship out more toys, not jobs. I've watched chronic cost cutting hamper production at the likes of Boeing and Union Pacific, and I will not allow our ranks to thin so far that we lose business to Toys "R" Us simply because we don't have the elf-power to stitch up enough Beanie Babies by Christmas...
...Bliss found himself formally charged on Friday, the U.S. warned Russia that the move could hamper American investment in Russia?s struggling economy. The 29-year-old engineer was accused of spying on sensitive military installations while helping lay the groundwork for a new cellular phone system in the city of Rostov, using a Global Positioning Satellite...
Becker takes the stage like a modern day Fred Flintstone in blue jeans, work-boots and a T-shirt which reveals a definite gut. The set resembles a half-prehistoric, half-modern bachelor pad, complete with stone slab chair and hamper full of dirty laundry...
...Wednesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance Director) Richard Sullivan testify that John Huang assured Gore's staff that this wasn't going to be a fundraiser," she said. "People tend to forget that if the nuns...
...from Leiden University in the Netherlands have for the first time isolated a gene that is linked to some types of migraines. The team, led by Dr. Michel Ferrari, studied 60 subjects from five families with a history of migraines. Inheriting one copy of the defective gene seems to hamper the ability of cells to use calcium molecules to communicate with one another. Ferrari stresses, however, that genetics is not destiny: "Certain patients will have a genetic predisposition but will develop migraine only when other, presumably environmental, factors are involved...