Word: straightjacketed
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...propose one. On both questions, the lines form predictably between liberals and conservatives. Convention supporters argue for a budget amendment with familiar Proposition 13 attacks on big government. Spokesmen for the National Taxpayers Union, which has pushed the convention proposal since 1975, admit that they are trying to "straightjacket" the federal government, but contend that a budget amendment could leave reasonable loopholes for national emergencies and wars...
...turned into nightmares could not be threatened by a philosophy that placed the source of health, not in the inner self, but in "the absolute justice and infinite wisdom and Order of the Universe." Kimberly Rath, sold on this surefire system for spiritual peace, donned it like a straightjacket upon her life...
...smiled at me fearfully. A sort of get-the-straightjacket-Marvin sidelong glance kind of smile. "A what?" He tapped his fingers together...
Ideas change with the years and this theater should not be a straightjacket, as so many Broadway houses are, but should allow future Harvard generations a certain freedom of choice in arrangement and staging...
...rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic straightjacket...