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The 1995 Program Lettersii were primarily developed it response to funding cuts and restrictions that had crippled legal services in our country.
But (as Moynihan acknowledges) many welfare mothers are so crippled by their own early childhood environments as to be essentially unemployable, no matter how well-financed and well-run the jobs programs and related counseling, training, and child-care programs.
Thompson's poor performance has infuriated conservative colleagues, especially Trent Lott, and may have crippled his presidential ambitions.
It was a way of life that would have crippled many a lesser man, but Wullie was a tough old bird: when the day of his hundredth birthday dawned he was still maintaining a keen interest in the daily affairs of his little place.
Murdoch believes that the snobs have crippled the profession with respectability, making journalism irrelevant to the masses.