Word: inhibitive
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...Nixon asked for it. Off for a golf date with Nixon at Maryland's Burning Tree Country Club, Dwight Eisenhower took the same tack: "If he wants my advice, I'll be glad to give it to him." But the lack of an invitation did not inhibit New York's bouncy Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who clearly has his own eye on the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. If Nixon does decide to run for the governorship, opined Rocky helpfully, "I think he'll like...
...little nothing is partly the stepchild of modern transportation-bulkier, more elaborate dresses severely inhibit a woman getting in or out of cramped taxis and automobiles. But technology is not the whole story. As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic. Most little nothings today are essentially grown-up versions of sleeveless, high-necklined junior dresses, unfitted, but figure-suggesting. 'It's almost like walking around in a slip," says a Henri Bendel buyer. "As soon as a dress gets...
Chapman seems to feel that Faculty supervision is called for on the main stage because the ranks of students directors will be thin next year, but he does not think that increased Faculty participation will inhibit the progress of a new crop. The Experimental Theatre is usually open, he notes...
...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered that a nonflammable part of a waxlike chemical in tobacco smoke acts to inhibit substances that can cause cancer. The anticancer agent (Wynder once thought that the entire substance caused cancer) is also present in auto fumes, where it seems to block cancer-causing substances more effectively-despite the fact that auto exhausts contain 60 times more of the cancer-causing agents. Wynder warned that the presence of the waxlike chemical in tobacco tar does not prevent lung cancer, hopes that eventually enough of the chemical...
...boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home; to foreign stock and bond holders went a heavy 15% tax on the flow of dividends and capital, designed to inhibit the capital inflow from...