Word: inhibiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole list I don't see a single concrete agreement." His point: the seven summiteers had expressed good intentions rather than committing themselves to specific policies. Almost to a man, Triffin and his board colleagues were concerned about a rising global trend toward protectionism, which could inhibit the needed expansion of world trade, and a failure to check inflation, which is now running at a rate of 9% in the European Community. They fear that these developments, which can be corrected only by tough and usually unpopular government actions, could turn the London summit into another exercise in empty...
Arms said far too many unnecessary Caesarians births have been conducted, that unnecessary drugs have been administered to women during childbirth, that medical care itself is often haphazard and careless, and that hospital rules and procedures inhibit the mother and the family from experiencing a normal, natural, more comfortable childbirth...
...energy plan. The President has called for increasing production from 665 million tons a year at present to 1.1 billion tons by 1985. Even so, coalmen are far from happy. They worry that tough clean-air standards will divert utilities to nuclear power and new strip-mining regulations will inhibit output. Mine operators are concerned that the surge in demand will drive up prices and Government allocation plans and price controls could become necessary...
...observation at a press conference in Sacramento, Calif., that he wished the reporting of spectacular violence could be regulated. Distressed by the overheated coverage of the Hanafi Muslims' siege in Washington, D.C., Young suggested that the Supreme Court might "clarify" the Constitution's First Amendment to inhibit newspapers and television from "creating a climate of violence." Although he later backed away from the idea and admitted that he was "reacting rather emotionally," Young appeared to have been advocating press censorship...
...violence. But concern grew among opposition leaders when officials in Delhi ordered some 200,000 central reserve police and members of the paramilitary border-security force to the countryside-a week before the elections-officially to maintain law and order. As Janata leaders quickly noted, their mere presence may inhibit efforts to get out the opposition vote...