Word: straitjacket
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...Harvard, Hankins says, he feels like he's"wearing a straitjacket" in teaching some classesbecause he can't assume students have any basiccommon knowledge...
...Econ 101, his budget might rate a B-minus. The document reflects more honest economic assumptions than any of the Reagan or Bush budgets, whose rosy scenarios quickly wilted under congressional scrutiny. The Clinton budget also shows the agony of an instinctive do-something Democrat caught in the straitjacket of 12 years of federal overspending. At the same time, the budget remains a halfway measure that fails to reflect the cost of health-care reform fully or to address the most intractable problem of federal spending -- middle-class entitlements...
...bewilder him. On the one hand, Jordan was so afraid of complicating his image that when reporters asked him to comment on the Los Angeles riots last year, he mumbled something about not knowing what was going on. On the other hand, he grew restless within his corporate straitjacket, like the time he went gambling in Atlantic City the night before a play-off game with the New York Knicks...
...fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice President has been holding with federal employees. It points to the failure of previous attempts to carry out the job President Clinton has given Gore: streamlining the bloated federal bureaucracy, loosening the straitjacket of its rigid rules and making it less maddening for citizens to deal with...
...such victories are sporadic at best. Last spring a Manhattan and New Jersey discount clothier named Daffy's ran an ad showing a straitjacket with the caption, "If you're paying over $100 for a dress shirt, may we suggest a jacket to go with it?" Protesters picketed a store, wrote letters and petitioned the New York City Commission on Human Rights. A Daffy's spokesperson insisted that the ad was humorous and called the protest unfair...