Word: hamstrung
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...other Democratic contenders lag even further behind Mondale, and may be severely hamstrung by their lack of funds. McGovern, who entered the race last October, has collected less than $30,000 compared to Mondale's $11 and Glenn's $7 million. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has thus far raised close...
...policy and unable to find any. "We don't know what we can do next," admitted one State Department official. Another senior diplomat grumbled that because of poor communications with Beirut, Washington is having trouble merely determining what is going on. Said he: "We're hamstrung...
...four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...
...announcement, published in Pravda, might come as good news to Soviet factory managers who complain that they are hamstrung by too many orders from Moscow. The new regulations, effective early next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also...
...confessor and the pastor of Warsaw's Saviour Church: "Because the government is absolutely isolated from society, it feels that the church is less dangerous than a legitimate political opposition." But if the church is strong in moral authority, it is hamstrung by the fact that it has no legal standing in Polish society and must constantly engage in a cat-and-mouse game with the state to protect its interests...