Word: inhibiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third, we meet end the domination that our multi-national corporations now hold over the economics of the poorer nations. At the least, countries could grow grain, not cocoa, coffee, and bananas. Also, we can recognize that the industrial-agricultural practices of the West will, in the long run, inhibit the effective production of food. Not through energy-wasteful technology, not by making the Third World over in our own image, but by the redistribution of land and the intensive, organic cultivation of small farms will the problem of starvation be solved...
Some people have expressed concern that the decision may inhibit abortion. We pray to God that it will and that at least some human lives may be saved...
...protein and its conversion into meat at incredible and growing rates. The export of our consumer culture, the development of export-oriented cash-crops, and the side-effects of the Green revolution involve additional distortions central to issues in which the rich nations are involved. These factors collectively inhibit, rather than promote self-reliant food supply systems in the Third World...
...couple of others, equally trite but true. But Kanin does such a good job of sugar-coating his didacticism that it usually remains palatable, even enjoyable. His "gems of wisdom" come in the rough, as drunken wisecracks or cute malapropisms ("This country belongs to the people who inhibit it,") and it is only in the final scene that the play seems to turn into a high school civics lesson...
...former President's case collapsed. But he also welcomed the sense of "excitement and peace" that followed the resignation. Why had he kept his silence during Nixon's last days? Said McLaughlin: "I did not want to say anything by way of a public defense that might inhibit him from recognizing that he should resign." There the maverick Jesuit was in agreement with Rome. Writing on Nixon's demise in L 'Osservatore della Domenica last week, Vatican Press Officer Federico Alessandrini concluded that the Watergate case had raised "a constitutional issue that left no choice open...