Word: hinders
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First, we disagree with the EPC’s logic in recommending that concentration choice be delayed an extra semester. Moving concentration declaration from the end of freshman year to the middle of sophomore year will limit student choice and hinder many concentrations in exchange for a dubious set of benefits. It is true that freshmen schedules are restricted by the need to fulfill their language requirements and complete Expos, and the EPC has argued that students need more time to thoroughly explore fields of potential interest. Another undecided semester would provide that, and it would allow ample contact with...
However, such layered themes do not hinder Hughes and his cast in their creation of an entertaining production. Set in the sophisticated high societies of Berlin and Paris in the late 19th century, the first two acts are characterized by a wry wit. With a script chock-full of sophisticated double entendres and copious phallic symbols, these acts showcase a wonderfully funny Joshua Clay Phillips ’07 as he portrays the simple and perpetually astonished Schwarz (Lulu’s second husband...
...brief took no position on FAIR’s argument that the Solomon Amendment breaches law schools’ free-speech rights. Instead, the professors argued that the government has unlawfully given the military a “unique privilege” to disregard any school policies that hinder its recruiting efforts...
...from Democrats like Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. He pronounced himself "disappointed that "[Bush] has proposed ... relief using such a politically charged approach," while California Representative George Miller complained that "to launch a new private-school voucher program in the midst of a disaster response creates a quagmire that could hinder rather than expedite the return to school for tens of thousands of students...
...deal with everything else. Bush does not appear to tap sources deep inside his government for information, the way his father or Bill Clinton did, preferring to get reports through channels. A highly screened information chain is fine when everything is going well, but in a crisis it can hinder. Louisiana officials say it took hours for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to reach Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able to tell him 'everything is under control,' when in this case...