Word: inhibitions
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...moisture out of soil faster, causing dry regions that live at the margins to cross the line into full-blown crisis. Meanwhile, El Nińo events--the warm pooling of Pacific waters that periodically drives worldwide climate patterns and has been occurring more frequently in global-warming years--further inhibit precipitation in dry areas of Africa and East Asia. According to a recent study by NCAR, the percentage of Earth's surface suffering drought has more than doubled since the 1970s...
...doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In any case, it can do nothing to end an existing pregnancy. About 1.3 million prescriptions for Plan B were filled last year, generating $30 million...
Luckily, “Mimi’s” treacly ballads don’t inhibit enjoyment of its Dupri-produced pop gems. “It’s Like That,” the follow-up single to “We Belong Together,” is a consummate club-banger: Dupri relies on little more than an Indian flute loop and an arrhythmic drum machine beat to craft an incredibly danceable track. The song’s beat is so hot that its occasional lapses into lyrical absurdity—at one point Carey opines...
...meal-a-week plan is purposely designed to provide students with unlimited access to dining services, yet the UC survey also reported that almost 90 percent of students miss dinner at least once a week because of timing. Students’ strenuous class and extracurricular schedules should not inhibit them from receiving the full benefits of their $4,430-a-year meal plan. Consequently, students are often forced to spend their own limited funds on food in the Square, either because they are unable to eat before 7:15 p.m. or because they (the 97 percent of the student body...
...troops during the Gulf War. Clinton recently signed a bill to provide aid for the thousands of veterans who have complained of mysterious illnesses since the end of the Gulf War, some of whom have linked their ailments to exposure to poison gas. Although low levels of chemicals that inhibit nerve functioning were found near battle sites, congressional analysts now say these trace amounts could well derive from pesticides, not lethal...