Word: hampers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intense pressure to bomb the Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Echoing the Joint Chiefs, politicians of both parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard Nixon called for stepped-up bombing of the North to prevent the U.S. from becoming "bogged down" in the ground war. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford and Republican Conference Chairman Melvin Laird warned that Viet Nam would be a major issue in next year...
...team did not look as good against Penn, and was unable to break through until midway in the final quarter. Penn's narrow field seemed to hamper Harvard's performance, Princeton was dumped by Penn 4-2 this year...
...Bigger Risk. American planners still feel that the risk involved in blasting North Viet Nam's industrial complex-as LeMay demands-is too high. Such attacks would do little to hamper North Viet Nam's war effort, since most of its weapons and ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South...
Last week all the experts seemed to be talking about the obvious solution: reform of the world monetary system. Former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon warned that if "urgent" steps are not taken now to provide another source of liquidity, the dry-up of dollars will "hamper world trade, slow up the economic growth of individual countries and threaten a worldwide recession." Meeting in Basel, the Bank for International Settlements exhorted the major Western powers to end their stalemate over how to overhaul monetary arrangements. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing cheered a throng of European financiers...
Bennett, the first holder of the Reinhold Niebuhr Professorship of Social Ethics at Union, is co-chairman of the editorial board of Christianity and Crisis. In 1960, he defended John Kennedy against the charges of his fellow Protestants who felt that Kennedy's Catholicism would hamper his conduct in office...