Word: impair
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...concern is more worrisome or pervasive than the fear that the new brand of consulting will impair communication within both the University and the larger scientific community. In industry researchers traditionally keep new developments secret long after they have been discovered, and many fear the firms may pressure their academic affiliates to do the same. "Entrepreneurs won't want someone to publish as soon as he's scooped his colleagues," Stephen H. Atkinson '67, executive director of the Committee on Patents and Copyrights, predicts. "[The businessman] is concerned about dollars; for the professor it could be his shot at tenure...
...dustup over the Japanese study is the latest round in an ongoing debate. Other studies have indicated that passive smoking can exacerbate symptoms in people with allergies and heart disease and impair lung functioning in healthy adults. Some research has found that children whose parents smoke suffer more respiratory-tract illness. Only one thing is certain: where there's tobacco smoke, there's bound to be fire...
Galebach thinks that the scholars are overreacting. Says he: "The bill doesn't impair the Supreme Court's ability to review Congress. It's just that this time around, they'll have to take into account the legislative determination. They can decide to follow it or not, but they have to give it due respect." Responds Bork: "The court won't let Congress make a determination of what the facts are, when the facts are the crucial facts for constitutional purposes. I think the court will gather itself to strike this law down...
...member church and that he received numerous phone calls begging him not to participate in any service in which women were ordained. Willie says softly, "But I talked it over with my wife and decided if I was reluctant to participate in something fair and right because it would impair my opportunity to be elected to higher office, then that kind of selfishness was inappropriate...
...wear the company's white overalls. But on May 16 a maintenance man decided to embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...