Word: hinders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solely to preserve a record for historians, the practice becomes more tolerable. Certainly, a recorder is a more efficient device than a staff member or stenographer taking notes. But taping seems fair only when all parties to a conversation are aware that their words are being recorded. This may hinder candor somewhat, but so does the presence of a notetaker. When only the President is aware of the listening devices, he is in a position to manipulate and distort the historical record with self-serving or misleading statements...
...Nixon such knowledge, Mitchell argued, would either make the President a party to the cover-up or would cause him "to lower the boom" on all those involved and thereby expose their activities. This would lead the public to blame Nixon for the wrongdoing of his associates. It would hinder his re-election chances-and this would be "absolutely unfair and unjustified...
...wives in the evenings, their children had to move away from home temporarily. The 18 days of semi-isolation were ordered by doctors to shield the astronauts from the effects of earthly germs; any chance infection could be confused with bodily changes caused by the prolonged weightlessness, and thus hinder the intensive effort to pinpoint the physical consequences of living in zero...
...claim that any leak could tear down the whole diplomatic structure is highly doubtful. The leaks (see box) did not prevent a SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union, hinder peace negotiations on Viet Nam, prevent Nixon from making his overtures to the Soviet Union and China or demonstrably affect the Middle East...
...operate freely without the intervention of the law. It certainly would arouse college students if a Harvard SDS member were kidnapped and returned two weeks later as an ardent John Bircher. If some 600 young people have successfully been forced to abandon their religious beliefs and convictions, what will hinder this number from climbing many times more? And what prevents the deprogrammers or similar groups from expanding their tactics to political groups? It is important that the authorities intervene today to stop such openly-connessed criminal activity as abduction, unlawful imprisonment and deprogramming. If not, how small a step...