Word: hamperred
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Davis' aristocratic background could hamper his political ambitions. "When you come from a middle-class bag, it's not easy to convince the masses that you're an allright dude," he admits. Sometimes he must choose between black solidarity and his own best judgment. Example: the county Democratic committee "had to endorse a black for the county commission even though there was a Jewish fellow who was the better candidate. If we blacks on the commission had taken the stump for the Jewish fellow, we would have been vilified as Uncle Toms...
...plan met opposition both from students and departments of the GSAS. Students said that the Kraus plan--which only funded to within $1000 of need--did not provide enough support. Department heads said that dropping merit scholarships would severely hamper them in their search for quality students...
...York State's Urban Development Corp. has suffered too. A quasi-public organization, it was formed in 1968 by the state legislature mainly to build low-and moderate-income housing-fast. The UDC was given unprecedented powers to "override" all the local zoning ordinances and construction codes that hamper building. After launching new towns in the country and apartment projects in cities, the UDC turned to the New York City suburbs, asking nine middle-income commuting communities to accept some 900 units of such housing. Citizens' groups in the towns immediately balked, saying that the UDC should...
...said that he would feel free to protest publicly if anybody tries to hamper him and that he will pursue the evidence "wherever that trail may lead...
...assured Gray the day before that the CIA could in no way be hurt by any Watergate investigation and he told Haldeman and Ehrlichman this. Nevertheless, Walters did go to Gray and suggest a potential CIA interest in holding back the Mexican probe. The snarl did for a time hamper the Watergate investigations, and the cause clearly was pressure from Nixon's two closest