Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Technical obstacles also hamper development. China lacks port and petro chemical transportation facilities to service the new complexes and the trained manpower to build and run them. Despite a population that studies estimate has topped 1 billion, the corps of skilled technicians is too small to meet China's future needs in petrochemicals alone...
...Carter Administration has its way, America's intelligence community will seize the recent resurgence of military fervor to wriggle out of unwelcome Congressional and public restraints. Carter paints the effort to clothe intelligence agencies in responsibility as a straitjacket that will hamper our intrepid intelligence-gatherers from carrying out their duties in an era of deepening danger to American security. The president is now pushing not just to limit Congressional oversight of intelligence activities but to legalize and codify a whole range of "acceptable" practices that threaten both domestic civil rights and foreign sovereignty...
...sectarian differences are the worst enemy of those working for progressive causes. Last week's organizing meeting of the Harvard anti-draft group showed signs that it may deteriorate into an ideological battleground between libertarians, pacifists and other sects. Discussion is important, but we hope internecine disputes will not hamper this movement...
...heart attack." Within 48 hours government bulletins said that the 79-year-old leader was recovering "normally" and that he had risen from his hospital bed to cast his own vote in the election. Khomeini issued a recorded get-out-the-vote message stressing that "my illness must not hamper anyone from effective participation in the election." He did not need to remind anyone that whoever wins the presidency, Iran's new constitution gives Khomeini effective power to remove...
...W.l.M.A.'s reckoning, business loses as much as $200 million yearly as a result of illegible records and messages. Sloppily filled-out returns hamper tax collection, while indecipherable addresses account for much of the 38 million pieces of mail that wind up in dead-letter offices at a cost of nearly $4 million a year for extra handling...