Word: hamstrung
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Injuries, including one suffered by star Co-Captain Jennifer Garcia, hamstrung Harvard in the first half of its season: The Crimson limped to a 3-6 record in a year where it expected to perform much better...
...this news is for Bush, even more troubling is that so few correctives are available to him between now and Nov. 3. Hamstrung by an enormous deficit and a weak dollar, the President's one policy weapon, say economists, is his ability to convince the public that he has a credible / economic plan for the next four years -- something recent polls suggest he has not yet done...
...accomplish this, Clinton had to rely on regressive sales taxes rather than expend further energy trying to work an income tax through the constitutional baffles. He had to cut corners and improvise in ways that less hamstrung governments avoid. "Clinton is criticized for using corporate jets to get around the state, but every politician does that here," says Diane Blair. "Otherwise you don't go anywhere. I have seen Hillary fly through black storms to get to a high school graduation where they are waiting for her. She would never make it if some firm in the town...
...impact here and now is bad enough. Although experts disagree about how much of a macroeconomic drag the deficit represents, there is no question that it has severely hamstrung the government. Voters have a point when they complain that Washington doesn't seem to do anything anymore except collect taxes; but they should understand that the existence of a $400 billion deficit -- created in part to pay for programs that voters themselves demanded even as they opposed new taxes -- severely limits the kinds of things the government can accomplish for the commonweal. Moreover, the size of the deficit means that...
...still don't think there is agreement on the economic impact of the deficit. But we have come to the point where we can see that the one debilitating effect is that it has absolutely hamstrung our government...