Word: straitjacketed
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...straitjacket of the Cultural Revolution. "The great spiritual wealth created by mankind was strange to them " it said. "They never heard of such names as Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Hugo and Mozart. Young people's minds were locked up in airtight cells. Now the prison has been smashed...
Today's excessive regulation is not only painful, it is also un necessary. Straitjacket rules imposed by a bulging bureaucracy lift unemployment, slow technical progress, reduce U.S. competitiveness in the world, hamper exports and thus further weak en the dollar. The imperial regulatory juggernaut has clearly gone too far and, in an inflationary and recession-threatening age, the nation can no longer afford the luxury of costly and in efficient Government control...
...game lunch. "We hope to interest people in good cooking," says Child. "We want them to say, 'If she can do it, I can.' " The show should also help Child cook her way out of a Gallic rut. Says she: "I've been in the French straitjacket for a long time...
Proud Afrikaner though he is, Van Tonder is scornful of South African policies. "It's a police state," he says. "It's putting my culture into a straitjacket." Van Tonder, who has now joined the right-wing Herstigle Nasionale Partie and is standing as one of their candidates, has had issues of his own personal newsletter, Die Stem (The Call), banned. He believes, perhaps unrealistically, that the old Boer republics-the Transvaal and the Orange Free State-should be left on their own, allowed to preserve their language and culture in the midst of a predominantly black Africa...
...hand. Now I've got it. But Jenner, he's too anxious to grab that medal away from me." Says Jenner of Avilov's composure: "He was so relaxed before the final event at Munich that he freaked me out. I would have been in a straitjacket myself...