Word: hindering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorable, and a bright, attractive girl finds the cityscape stippled with graduate students, military officers, fledgling diplomats, congressional assistants, Foreign Service officers and acres of young lawyers. Among these groups, Washington's divorce rate is high?but not among the officeholders, who regard Splitsville as a state that can hinder their careers...
...that the nation's 17 existing "nukes" discharge heat (he said low-level radiation is under control), Knapp declared that "there is not a single case of thermal emission seriously damaging the ecology." He particularly decried conservationists' lawsuits that block the growth of nuclear plants. Those who hinder power generation, Knapp said, only guarantee "ever darkening skies and diminishing amounts of fossil fuel resources-or an even more hazardous environmental threat, insufficient electricity to meet our nation's demand...
Rejecting Pomerleau's theories, a U.S. district court in Baltimore has ruled that Bruns is eligible to be a cop. Chief Judge Edward Northrop found no evidence that the practice of nudism would hinder Bruns from carrying out his duties as a police officer. Without such evidence, said the court, the Baltimore police department's ban against nudists clearly violated the First Amendment right to free association...
...Spengler flares up during the race. Monday he reinjured the hip which forced him to miss the end of the 1969 season, and he has taken the week off. "It's just about on the verge of tearing," teammate Bob Seals said yesterday. It appears that it will not hinder him today, but no one is sure...
...searching for clues. Last year, on a similar tip involving a Weatherman raid on a high school, the Globe sent over a reporter and photographer, but did not inform police. They later explained that giving the information to police would be violating the confidentiality of their sources and might hinder their ability to talk with radical groups in the future...