Word: impairer
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...Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that his classroom presence would be accompanied by continuing speculation about events outside the classroom that would constitute a major distraction for students and impair their educational experience," he wrote...
...such cannot be countenanced. Conservatives take issue with such claims, objecting usually on the basis of unit cohesion. Rights, so the reasoning goes, are meaningful only insofar as a state can stay independent enough to secure them. Fighting power is the overriding imperative. Openly gay soldiers might impair the unit cohesion integral to an effective army, and for this reason alone they should not serve...
Talk about malnourished children, and most Americans think of skeletal waifs in Africa. But starvation isn't the only form of malnutrition. Too much of the wrong kinds of food--crackers, candy and soda, for example--can impair a child's development as well. In fact, children's diets in the U.S. have got so far out of whack that half of American kids now consume less than the recommended daily allowance for iron, calcium or zinc--three key minerals vital to the growth of small bodies...