Word: hamstrung
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Without any clues from the Radcliffe brass, RCAA was hamstrung in planning for the future, let alone in dealing with frazzled alums...
Worse, you just don't end up with a novel. While he capitalizes handsomely on the freedom afforded by fiction (so many more people you can zing without fear of libel!), Andersen is hamstrung by the overall structure that the genre demands. His sentences may sparkle, but the book's forward motion is a sputtering lope. Its loose, digressive shape makes Turn of the Century awfully easy to put down...
...RCAA President Jane E. Tewksbury '74 saysits reevaluation process is hamstrung byuncertainty about Radcliffe's future...
Pollack, a professor at Harvard medical school, argues that boys are hamstrung by "the old Boy Code--the outdated and constricting assumptions, models and rules about boys that our society has used since the 19th century." Parents, he says, must "get behind the mask" and find out their sons' real feelings...
...board is hamstrung in other ways. By federal statute, meetings attended by even two board members must be open to the public, effectively making it illegal for individual members to consult privately. "We can't sit down and brainstorm," says Robert Thomas, executive vice president of Republic Industries and one of two Republicans appointed by Clinton to the board. But if board members could talk to one another, they might not come close to reaching a consensus. When Franklin declined last month to hear from Connerly, his decision not only enraged conservatives but also caused grumbling among otherwise sympathetic board...