Word: hamstrung
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...content does not belie the appearance. The Harvard Review seems to have unraveled many of the problems which have hamstrung so many publications for so long. It has avoided the ubiquitous pitfalls of puerility, hyper-academicism, and tendentiousness. Editing and selection of material was done entirely by undergraduates, yet the magazine sustains a level of style and cogency which many adult-run "little" magazines might take for an example...
...typographers' wage demands are excessive. They are asking an $18-a-week wage increase, $10 more than the Guild won in its strike last month. (On the other band, his demand for a contract expiration date coinciding with the Guild's is perfectly legitimate, since no union should be hamstrung by the pressures of another union's contract...
Soft-spoken Premier Adoula, by far the ablest of the Congo's leaders, is as exasperated as anyone else at this state of affairs, but he is hamstrung by Leopoldville's nightmarish political mess, which forces him to spend 80% of his budget on salaries for civil servants and the 25,000-man army, which is vastly overpaid ($180 base pay per month for privates) to keep it loyal. To retain the support of the myriad political factions, he has 41 men in his Cabinet, perhaps the world's biggest...
...peso convertible, with good results-the first four months of this year show a $23 million surplus in balance of payments compared with a $27 million deficit for the same period last year. He is hoping to set up a private, U.S.-Philippine development bank. But he is often hamstrung by a Congress still dominated by Garcia's Nacionalista Party, whose members cannot be turned out until the next elections, when Macapagal's new double image may well win him a majority...
Champ Clark, a Missouri lawyer, was the Democratic floor leader in the insurrection against Uncle Joe Cannon. When he became Speaker, he was hamstrung by his own handiwork, and his fellow Democrats were reluctant to restore the powers that Clark had helped take from Cannon. He went a long way, however, toward restoring the speakership to its former prestige, and was noted for his rapid rulings. He never liked to explain his decisions, he said, because, like a country judge he had known back in Missouri, he might make the right ruling but give the wrong explanation...