Word: hamstrung
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...playing for time, solidifying his power base while appeasing the workers with friendly appointments and economic concessions. At some point, he knows, he will have to draw the line. That decisive moment may be hastened if severe consumer shortages develop this winter, as some experts fear. Hamstrung by a $21 billion debt to the West, the Polish economy is in dire straits-and getting worse every...
Meanwhile, India's economy is hamstrung by an ever increasing oil import bill, which consumes 60% of the country's export income. India depended on Iraq and Iran for roughly two-thirds of its oil imports; with those supplies restricted by the Persian Gulf war, and domestic production cut by the disruptions in Assam, New Delhi has had to scramble for new sources of oil, including the spot market. Although monetary restrictions and liberalized imports have reduced India's inflation rate from 22% in January to 15% today, such commodities as sugar (52? a lb.), and lentils...
Regional officials are not the only ones covering up the problem. According to Rep. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), EPA Assistant Administrator Thomas Jorling "more or less ordered the regional people to 'look the other way"' when they received complaints about chemical pollution. Hamstrung by a subsistence budget and reluctant to step on the sensitive toes of its regional offices, top administrators have quietly suspended all action on chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief...
...counterinsurgency and internal security. Its forces have not fought a major battle for about 150 years, although a few Thai units saw limited action in Korea and Viet Nam. While the Thai soldier would give a good account of himself if his country were invaded, he would be hamstrung by inexperienced leadership and unsophisticated weapons. The country's arsenal consists mainly of 149 aircraft and 150 U.S.-made M41 light tanks. On order are 149 British-made Scorpion reconnaissance vehicles that one local military specialist described as a "Jeep with a 76-mm gun on top." The illogical purchase...
...going to be shamed in the eyes of the rest of the community by not having your own attorney," says Charles Coy, a Richmond, Ky., lawyer who has been hired several times as a special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton shooting took place a year and a half ago, has no investigators to interview witnesses or do any other legal legwork. The prosecutor must assent before a private lawyer can actually argue a criminal case in court, but some...