Word: dampener
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...even a torrential downpour could dampen the spirits of the No. 18 Harvard field hockey team in its battle for local supremacy against No. 13 Boston College at Alumni Stadium last night...
...language about the pill's being limited to "physicians who can accurately determine the duration of a patient's pregnancy" to mean that they should do this with ultrasound--and most do not have ultrasound equipment in their office. Likewise, special training and extra malpractice insurance might dampen enthusiasm for offering the drug. Doctors will have the extra burden of locating those women who do not return for the final visit to make sure their pregnancy has been terminated. Were there to be an increase in complications or birth defects associated with mifepristone (none have yet been reported), insurance companies...
...Will oil prices, which can act like a tax and dampen consumer spending, continue to do the Fed's soft-landing work for it? Or will they smother the boom? Will corporate earnings pick up? Will the euro ever recover? As the Fed chairman made clear with those ever-so-slightly-hawkish comments about energy prices, Uncle Alan may be on the sidelines - but he's watching. And he'll see us in December...
...phone. He grimaced. "A quality problem--mistake of some sort." Other Pentagon officials pledged to work even harder to make the next test, set for the fall, a success. But the failure of two proven technologies in a single test--the interceptor basically never turned itself on--will probably dampen any Clinton ardor for an operational system by 2005. Congressional zeal for the shield, however, is irrepressible...
This year the macarena's not going to cut it; Al Gore had better work on his salsa moves. With the Cuban-American political leadership already enraged at the administration over the Elian Gonzalez case, Wednesday's raid on protesters at a Navy base in Vieques could certainly dampen Puerto Rican enthusiasm for getting out the Gore vote. U.S. marshals and FBI agents began in the early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York...