Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the growth of his business, Duclos spends enough time on the fairways to keep his handicap at a respectable 6. Besides the Long Beach home, Duclos and his wife Mollie own a vacation cottage near the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. Off the links, he relaxes by playing Beethoven and Mozart on a Kawai grand piano, accompanied by a $17,000 Kurzweil synthesizer that can replicate the sound of a symphony orchestra...
...this approach has problems that handicap its effectiveness. It's fine to learn the process, but where does a student learn the values he will base his future actions on? Professor Stanley Hoffman once described that when he teaches a Core course he concentrates "on the building rather than scaffolding." Instruction that is obsessed with process will miss the more important "building" of actual moral values...
President Bok personally journeyed to Washington to argue that the bill would handicap the University's attempts to bring new blood into the faculty when the majority of tenured professors turn 70 in 15 years...
...Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America: "There is no reason for interest rates to continue going up. That would slow the economy so much that the run-up wouldn't be sustained." But the abrupt halt to the flow of ever cheaper mortgage money might handicap an otherwise healthy homebuilding industry. Last week the Commerce Department reported that housing starts during March fell to an annual rate of 1.77 million, a 3.2% drop from the previous month...
...Supreme Court' s ruling on handicap discrimination has major implications for AIDS victims. -- A ban on "humanist" texts...