Word: hamstrung
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...Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people live in Luanda's slums, malaria and cholera are rife, and 70% of the population of 16 million subsist below the poverty line. Surveying the forest of cranes on Luanda's skyline, a foreign businessman describes the operating environment as opaque, corrupt and hamstrung by bureaucracy. "It's a nightmare," he says...
...possible the political brouhaha may force an early election, although that's something none of the key political parties want at this stage. More likely, the dispute will leave India stuck with a lame-duck government, hamstrung by its erstwhile left-wing partners. That would have a chilling effect on India's vital economic liberalization plans - labor reform, the privatization of state-run enterprises and the loosening of restrictions on foreign direct investment - all of which the leftist parties have opposed in the past. If the nuclear deal fails, India will have lost more than just entry into the nuclear...
...treatment has been frustrating and often futile, and she says she isn't alone. Some of the earliest drugs used to treat RLS actually worsened the symptoms over time - a phenomenon known as "augmentation." As a result, Jones says many of the RLS sufferers in her support group are hamstrung by their condition, forced to make dispiriting lifestyle changes to avoid embarrassment. One woman retires every night at 8 p.m. to hide her "night-walking." Others can never go to plays or movies because sitting still aggravates their condition...
...establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That the new body’s influence was accordingly hamstrung is relatively clear...
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have a lot in common. Both find themselves politically hamstrung by an ongoing bloodbath far away while facing electoral doubts at home. Both are obsessed with securing their respective legacies, with the U.S. race for '08 heating up and Blair's announcement that he intends to step aside this year for successor Chancellor Gordon Brown. Now they have one more thing in common: brought to you by Channel Four, the same company that last year controversially imagined Bush's assassination in The Death of a President, Britain's PM comes under fire...