Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takeover as a "democratic revolution" and promised "to devote all my energy to starting a movement of international support for building a democratic Georgia." Shevardnadze would certainly lend any post-Gamsakhurdia leadership the kind of authority it needs in the West. But the veteran diplomat suffers from one major handicap: he may be too closely identified with the Kremlin to suit his intensely nationalistic compatriots...
...barred from psychiatry -- or that they need more coaching. A male advantage in math could be used to confine girls to essays and sonnets -- or the decision could be made to compensate by putting more effort into girls' math education. In effect, we already compensate for boys' apparent handicap in verbal skills by making reading the centerpiece of grade-school education...
Johnson is a relative newcomer to television, a fact regarded as a handicap by some, a strength by others. He admits he is still learning the medium. "I'm not going to try to become an expert in TV technology," he says. "I want to surround myself with people who are better than I am in the various disciplines. My job is to lead...
...climate of cynicism is a handicap for the Palestinian negotiators. They lack a mandate to accept the compromises that may be necessary for reaching a settlement. If they make concessions to Israel, there is the possibility they will be labeled traitors to the Palestinian cause; at worst, they risk violence. Beneath the vibrant bougainvilleas that peep over the wall ^ surrounding Palestinian interlocutor Faisal Husseini's Jerusalem home is a warning message branding him a "surrenderist...
...pages to realize that Ripley has had to / forfeit the novelist's right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett is frequently wordy and inelegant...