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...city street cleaning and snow removal departments would oppose any all-night parking, Meyer thinks, since it would hinder their efficient operation. Councillor Sullivan answered this by saying that parking could be made one-way one day and reversed the next to allow city vehicles to do their work every other morning...
...straight elections and has all but blotted out the opposition in the legislature. "We don't need an opposition," Ernest Manning has said. "They're just a hindrance to us. You don't hire a man to do a job and then hire another man to hinder...
...keep a balanced mind; let us be on our guard unremittingly; let us never be afraid . . . as Cicero once said in his defence of the poet Archias, "nourish youth, delight old age, embellish prosperous times, afford a haven and solace in adverse times, give pleasure at home, do not hinder abroad, spend the night with us, travel about with us, live in the country with...
...this nation reached the stage of material wealth when it can help, or at least not hinder, its nonprofit musical groups? Have we not as a people reached the stage when we want to be known as more than a nation of nuts & bolts, important as these...
...interest expressed in your editorial of October 5," Comp. Lit. Complaint." Nothing would please us better than to be able to meet this very amiable complaint by enlarging the number of our undergraduate courses. And your editorialist seems to grasp very well the circumstance that would hinder such enlargement--the fact that we are really a coordinating agency, staffed through the cooperation of various departments, which quite naturally have their own demands to meet first...