Word: hampers
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...attention must be paid to two crucial stages of development: prenatal and early childhood, and early adolescence. Brain damage to the fetus through malnutrition or drug abuse can diminish intellectual ability. And failure to form a secure attachment to an adult in the first two years of life can hamper a child's learning as well as emotional growth. To forestall such damage, Hamburg asserts, women must have access to prenatal care, drug-treatment programs and nutrition counseling. It also helps to assign parental mentors to new mothers (and fathers), and to consolidate social and health services into "one-stop...
Rudenstine said yesterday that the Universitywould be updating its goals and begin constructionof a new five-year plan. But the president alsosaid that tough economic times may hamper effortstowards realizing such goals...
While it seems that administrators are trying to keep Harvard research free of money's taint, many doctors and industry leaders question whether the current guidelines may actually serve to hamper important gains...
Condors find food in open flatlands where shrubbery will not hamper takeoffs. They used to live on cliff tops around California's Central Valley and fly to lowlands where hunters shot deer and left "gut piles" full of bullet fragments of toxic lead...
BOOKS A picnic hamper full of summer novels...