Word: hinders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utterances, like those of his U.S. counterpart, Alan Greenspan, can move markets or puncture investor confidence. His blessing of the euro venture would be a welcome seal of approval, but he could waylay the entire program if he declares its underlying fiscal arrangements to be flawed, and he could hinder the entry of any nation he feels does not meet Maastricht standards...
...amazement that anyone so young could write a publishable novel seems slightly condescending, of a piece with the sentiment behind a chauvinistic remark of Samuel Johnson's: "A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In fact, most of Necessary Madness is done very well indeed, at least within the restrictions of its genre. Crowell keeps her plot moving briskly along, and her narrator gets off some good lines. Looking back on her teenage fling with punk fashions, she notes...
...Boutros-Ghali was being considered, the U.S. was apprehensive because even then he had a reputation for arrogance. He was also not an administrator, which is what the U.S. wanted." Annan, on the other hand, is the United States' hand-picked choice, and resentment of that fact will undoubtedly hinder the diplomat's relations with some nations. "If somebody has to carry this burden," Michaels says, "he's probably the only one who can pull it off. He's a team builder and a bureaucrat, but the question is, Does he have vision?" His first order of business as secretary...
...think [passing the bill] might hinder something that is more important, that is, getting students to sit on the Ad Board," Kirtley said...
...bill for the first time, who explained to me how the council works. When it was time for the bill to be introduced, Jones and Ceryak gave me a chance to speak. I said that although I appreciated the sentiments behind the bill, I thought its passage might hinder the more important goal of gaining student voices on the Ad Board. Although it would be satisfying to see the Ad Board condemned, this punitive measure would in all likelihood be shrugged off by the administration and could even hinder an attempt to achieve true reform of the Ad Board...