Mr. Kerry has a detailed record of positions on scores of topics -- a potential handicap for any incumbent senator running for the presidency.
It is, to be sure, a cornerstone of his appeal, but also an effort to turn what many could see as a potential handicap — his inexperience — into an asset.
An excessively happy central character would seem like a potential handicap in a novel, but Powers manages the difficult feat of making Thassa plausible and even fascinating, in part by refracting her through the others, in part by endowing her with a richly textured biography.
It was their idea in 2008 to push for the tournament and once Spain recognised the potential handicap of having staged the tournament as recently as 1982, linking up with a country that has never hosted a finals seemed a good idea.
"Thousands of people were a member of the party to make a career".Instead it was Mr Fischer's perceived connection with big business, a potential handicap in a country where politics and finance are counterproductive bedfellows, which may be his biggest electoral handicap.
Indeed, knowledge of economics and business is seen, if anything, as a potential handicap.
