Word: hamstrung
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...Yucatan Peninsula and probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Everyone recognizes the devastating effect of the dino-death asteroid, Jaroff points out, but many people are still hesitant to assign any real significance to asteroid studies. "The scientists who began looking for information back in the 1970s were hamstrung by a general lack of funding. They were greeted in Congress by giggles...
Chad A. Wathington '00 said he believed the referenda had left the council hamstrung by an insufficient budget and too few members, and announced his resignation as a result...
Davis' attempt to refer the term bill decision to the student body was hamstrung by council procedure from the very start. He was not allowed to present his motion initially because he is not a council member...
That such small beer can set off a furor proves how ideologically hamstrung our schools debate has become. Still, if Bush's plan is largely symbolic, it's also sensible, offering coherent baby steps to lift the skills of America's neediest kids. Take his plan for Head Start, the popular preschool program that serves 850,000 disadvantaged children. While the 35-year-old program was meant to close the achievement gap between poor and middle-class toddlers, researchers agree it has brought no lasting gains. Most say that's because Head Start has become more of a day-care...
...have even more work to do in Washington," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Right now the U.S. is perceived as having little focus or direction in its foreign policy, and its tendency to avoid dealing with crises in international forums for fear of being hamstrung has led to a situation where we?re perceived to simply not be listening to anybody else...