Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Labor and Likud have had to concede control over religious issues that inhibit the behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...
...other scientists. "The best thing about Max's virus," says Gallo, "is that we can learn why one is pathogenic and the other isn't." By identifying which component of the AIDS virus is responsible for its deadly effects, researchers may be able to develop new drugs that specifically inhibit it. They may also be able to alter the virus genetically to remove its harmful traits, leaving a benign version that could serve as a vaccine...
Unfortunately, the current housing system--a leftover of a bygone era in which interviews with house masters determined house assignments--seems designed to inhibit the very diversity that Harvard so proudly advertises. The current method of assigning housing perpetuates stereotypes, creates needless anxiety among already overstressed freshmen, and distracts them from realizing the crucial importance of finding the best roommates they can, regardless of house choice...
...Sometimes I think it does inhibit us from taking a risk. If we loose $500 on a dance it's a big deal," says Leverett House Committee Chairman Carolyn M. Martin...
Cancers, considered one of the fastest and most uncontrollable of all growths, have proved so deadly since doctors have not yet perfected agents either to inhibit the unrestricted growth or to destroy an existing tumor...