Word: inhibiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Progressives' gains marked a slight shift away from racism, it was not nearly enough to inhibit Vorster's plans to continue segregating most of South Africa's blacks in crowded Bantustans. The dreary settlements have little hope of achieving economic independence. Black tribal land was originally promised in 1936, but much acreage still has not been turned over. Even if it were, black chiefs say, the total area would still be inadequate. Vorster claims that he cannot grant more land because the 1936 act ties his hands. "Nonsense," retorts Gatsha Buthelezi, 45, chief minister...
...prosecutors are also taking ad vantage of an old but little-used law that imposes a five-year maximum sentence for lying to a Government investigator, such as an FBI agent. The law was rarely enforced in the past in criminal investigations partly for fear that it would inhibit those being questioned. Nonetheless, in a few cases the charge has been added to others against Mitchell and his colleagues...
...have been negotiated with President Bok. Meanwhile, the University is putting into gear its slow-moving bureaucratic machinery and has begun soliciting funds for the Institute. Fund-raising should begin now because the black community needs a center for research, regardless of administrative conflicts. Approaching potential donors does not inhibit the possibility of much-needed changes in the report. For the Afro Department to fulfill its potential, Harvard should establish the DuBois Institute but should insure that a formal relationship between the Institute and the Afro Department...
...will study the teaching load of graduate students, a topic raised by an impending cut in the funds allotted to teaching fellows. Another group will study the distribution of women among the University's departments, in an effort to uncover any pressures that might inhibit women from concentrating in particular fields...
...consumer austerity could go out of fashion very suddenly, especially if gasoline flows as freely as expected with the Arab embargo off. On the other hand, high gasoline prices will continue to inhibit driving, and most economists do not expect inflation and unemployment to abate much until late in the year. So the unseasonable chill on retail sales could last well into the hot-weather months...