Word: hamstrung
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...meetings should not be hamstrung with a formal agenda. Each chief of government should introduce relevant questions; each should present in turn his own ideas of the causes of world tension...
...Hamstrung by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's refusal to appear before it. the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections issued a report (TIME, Jan. 12, 1953) that made no specific charges, but asked questions about Joe's federal tax payments. The Internal Revenue Service began an investigation, and last year the Washington Star bannered: MCCARTHY...
...that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects to pep up the stodgy Globe-Democrat. Although it has made a small profit year after year (estimated at $250,000 after taxes last year), it has been hamstrung by a tight budget...
...Government. Its main recommendation: that more politically appointed, non career executives should be placed in positions that call for making and defending public policies. Herbert Hoover's commission of seven Republicans and five Democrats recognizes the damage that can be done when an incoming Administration is hamstrung by civil service rules protecting policymakers who are against its general program and outlook...
When the Senate's censure proceedings ended, Senator McCarthy could no longer complain that his exposure of Communists was being "hamstrung." With a public show of energy tempered by bluster, he ordered his Permanent Investigations Subcommittee into action, ostensibly to find Communists in defense plants...