Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson also met twice with Italian Premier Aldo Moro, tried to reassure him that the U.S.-sponsored nuclear nonproliferation treaty would not handicap non-nuclear nations from fully developing the industrial applications of atomic energy. He talked for 45 minutes with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, encouraging him to go ahead with his decision to apply for Common Market membership...
...silks worn by the political jockeys are meaningful. Lyndon B. Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof Hubert Humphrey, only slightly touched by the presidential purple (some people are more purple than others...
...stock, in what he calls his "third incarnation in advertising," he is intent on making the shop illustrious again. Says Foote of the Regimen affair: "That hurt us. We lost accounts totaling $2,500,000 as a result of the conviction, and we found it a handicap both in attracting business and people." Today Emerson Foote, Inc.'s billings are $9,100,000 v. $14 million at Kastor Hilton's peak...
...same time, there is always some fear about the Deans' office "moving in" and taking over control of different aspects of undergraduate life. The dean, according to one top administrator, "can't be a big, flamboyant figure--he has to work quietly...." In addition, Monro had a personal handicap; he doesn't have a Ph.D., and this is said by some to hurt...
...India and Sweden asked why the have-nots should give up their right to bombs if the haves give up nothing in return. West Germany, which believes that it has the potential to be second only to the U.S. in building and selling reactors, fears that the treaty would handicap its nuclear development. Furthermore, the West Germans are afraid that the Russians would use the inspection clause to pry into West German plants, disrupt important research on the ground that it violated the treaty, and filch patents. The treaty, said Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian branch...