Word: impair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most heated arguments were over defense, which accounts for 29% of the budget. Finance Minister Yoram Aridor lad proposed cutting $333 million in military spending. But Defense Minister Moshe Arens argued vehemently that such reductions would impair the army's preparedness and require cutbacks in troop numbers. Begin agreed. At one point he chastised Aridor, saying, "It's not worth cutting the defense budget at a time like this." As a compromise the defense budget was reduced by $141 million this year; another $125 million will be sliced off in the next two years...
...would bring disastrous consequences for higher education and, by logical extension, for the country as a whole. Eliminating mandatory retirement would place an unendurable burden on the system of lifetime tenure for professors so essential to academic freedom. It would choke off opportunities for younger scholars to move ahead, impair universities' ability to carry out affirmative action in hiring, and probably force institutions to rethink the tenure process. In short, the idea that professors could hang on indefinitely would damage the lifeline through which the all-important scholarship and teaching of the nation is consistently revitalized...
...When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination and judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial pilot on such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA will be sending...
...effects are often long-range, Victims feel their trust in academic relationships is destroyed; they often suffer from writer's block and other academic troubles which impair their course work. Since the harassment in based on sexual identity, victims also suffer in their peer relationships. Changing sections when possible may alleviate the immediate problems, but it does not address the true issue...
...have already achieved his life's ambition. Once again, the cheeky, satirical spirit that animated the hit Broadway show has been dispensed with. The new film, like its predecessor has as its sole aim the corruption of chil dren under the age of 14. Not that it will impair them morally. No, the aim is to generate false, commercialized nostalgia br what is made to seem a simpler, yet more colorful teen time than their own. The movie strains and strains for the effect Gregory's Girl achieves without trying, perhaps did not consciously intend...