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...Kaufman further stipulated that no sealed messages would be delivered. This tends to inhibit significant communications, such as propositions for midnight love trysts on the banks of the Charles...
...from much the same vagueness. He ignores many of the internal policies and attitudes of the Church. Never does he discuss the close identification the Church sees between itself and the propertied classes. In fact, he refuses to examine in any detail the cleavages within the Catholic hierarchy that inhibit reform--the tremendous bureaucracy, the parochial mentality, the strong conservative bias...
Before 1900 everything was simpler, Spock said. But people "inhibit themselves" by knowing about Oedipus complexes and the like, he added. He advised young parents--there were many of them in the audience--to reset a little less cautiously and somewhat more instinctively to their tots' extreme demands...
...resting the national economic welfare on a game of chance." Addressing the "Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963," a group formed at the Administration's urging and including such big names as Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller and Frederic Donner, Kennedy said Byrnes's rider would inhibit rather than stimulate investment, thus nullifying the purpose of the tax cut. "This nation," he said, "has had a recession on the average of every 42 months since the second World War-or every 44 months since the first World War. By January, it will have been 44 months since...
What It Does & Doesn't. This treaty advances, though it does not assure world peace; and it will inhibit, though it does not prohibit, the nuclear arms race. While it does not prohibit the United States and the Soviet Union from engaging in all nuclear tests, it will radically limit the testing in which both nations would otherwise engage. While it will not end the threat of nuclear war or outlaw the use of nuclear weapons, it can reduce world tensions, open a way to further agreements and thereby help to ease the threat of war. While it cannot...