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...long jump, Leon Sharpe, a sophomore who finished first in the GBC's and sophomore Via Vanderpool Wallace make the Crimson's a clear threat. A knee injury suffered last spring may inhibit Sharpe, however, and clouds the team's future somewhat...
...dollar price of the drinks did not inhibit the Nixon celebrators, but it did discourage members of the press...
Civil libertarians and writers immediately charged that the proposed definition of obscenity would "virtually outlaw any expression of nonconformity" and "inhibit the serious artist." The Times of London found the whole report effective "as a barrage in a campaign" but not thorough, coherent or detached enough to be useful in sparking new legislation...
...Angeles Realtor Harold Willens, are cautiously waiting to see how McGovern's campaign shapes up before they commit their funds. Says Shorenstein: "Our system requires a growth economy. You have to have free enterprise and competition and a good business atmosphere. If we are going to inhibit opportunity with heavy taxes and prohibitive inheritance taxes, then it is a new kind of country, not the kind people like me could relate...
...director of research at the Northville (Mich.) State Hospital and a participant in the Einstein operation, subscribes to the neurological approach put forward by Professor Ronald Melzack of McGill University. Called the "gate control theory" of pain, it holds that certain nerve cells in the spinal cord can either inhibit or intensify the flow of pain impulses to the brain. If the theory is correct, implantation of acupuncture needles could prevent pain in two ways: first, by blocking the transmission of pain sensations from peripheral nerves to the spinal cord and thus to the brain; second, by shutting down...