Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, students should have more access to the Faculty Council. Bowersock says the Council discusses confidential matters and student presence would "inhibit freedom of discussion." The Council, however, could easily include students in debates on specific issues. Keeping Council meetings secret inhibits freedom of discussion more seriously--by preventing debate between faculty and students...
...Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the possibilities of sending Isaac Asimov to Pluto, or the time Mr. Sulu's left ball was shot off by Klingons. It's worse at Dracula conventions: the plastic fangs they wear inhibit conversation, and instead of meeting tall, gaunt, Continental types they find only themselves, or else fat, greasy middle-aged men. The shock of recognition: it's like casting a vampire into the sunlight...
Warned the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "These decisions will encourage harassing libel suits and will discourage news about public events." For large publishing and broadcasting organizations, the risk is probably small. But the threat of libel may inhibit any small newspaper or publishing house that lacks the resources to defend itself...
...later put it, "We would be giving up future draft choices in exchange for cuts in their starting lineup." Brown seconded the idea, adding that there might also be a limit on the number of missile tests each side could conduct in a year. Such a limit would further inhibit the Russians from improving their rockets...
...inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even the Saudi Arabian government plans to line its Jidda-Riyadh highway with 400 solar-powered emergency call boxes...