Word: inhibit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem that may well merit new legislation, involves the full disclosure of campaign contributions. Winter resists changes even in this area, arguing that any law might inhibit an idealistic philanthropist from backing a candidate who favors a seemingly unpopular cause. Perhaps so. On the other hand, if a candidate's financial support comes largely from the drug manufacturers or the oil industry or labor political-action committees, the voter is entitled to know that...
...concentration of pollutants needed to inhibit the chemotaxis of bacteria may reasonably be found in nature. Fogel concluded, Chet and Mitchell speculate that pollutants might concentrate in small areas of the ocean and prevent bacteria from finding food or purifying the water...
...Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their patients is a gifted epileptic engineer named Thomas...
...legitimacy of the here and now, to eliminate the "depth" consciousness of a metaphysical void and the need to transcend it, to find happiness by other means than spiritual self-aggrandizement, and to destroy the historicizing consciousness that piles up layers of immobilizing interpretations, ambiguities, expectations, and despairs that inhibit what Cioran calls "the temptation to exist...
...significance of the student's actions. It also offers an opportunity for the student to question the Committee and the complainant and to discuss informally with both a wide range of matters, some only indirectly related to the specific charge. (C. F. Cox's appeal) A public hearing . . . would inhibit many if not all parties to these discussions and lead the Committee to play the role of silent judge...