Word: inhibitions
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...idea that the separation of powers envisioned under the Constitution is endangered by hybrid officials like the Comptroller. They contend that the existing system of checks and balances is sufficiently vigorous to keep any one branch from dominating the others, and that to insist always on ironclad divisions would inhibit the flexible assignment of Government functions. Far more worrisome to many legal observers is the possibility that the court might invalidate Gramm-Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that they say could jeopardize the independence...
...provides immense support for concerts, which reflects the efforts of these schools to improve the quality of student life. Under our current system, no matter how hard the UC and HCC work, if the College doesn’t provide more administrative and financial support, it will continue to inhibit the ability to produce large concerts,” said Glazer. And though the College often blames the UC for not allocating its funds correctly—focusing too much on student group funding than planning student events—to take from the former to give to the latter...
...seems a shame to inhibit a good ranter. But ranting is not always entertaining. Often it is embarrassing, even shaming. Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...
...Hollywood sound stages. But twice in four years Reagan has been brushed by death, and both times he has unfurled his gentle humor and insisted that the play go on. The second drama is just starting. But there is no reason to believe that the threat of cancer will inhibit him any more than the attempted assassination did four years ago. His friends bet it will be just the opposite. He wants this act to be his best, whatever time he may have left...
...choice is clear, and the way to begin is evident: publishers ought to work with, not inhibit, Harvard and Google in their digitization venture. Progress shouldn’t be limited by rusty laws or the short-sighted opportunists that exploit them...