Word: hampered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devalue the Soviet currency 90% for transactions that do not involve imports or exports. Foreign visitors will get much more bang for their buck: 6.26 rubles per dollar. But Soviet citizens traveling abroad will receive a paltry 16 cents per ruble instead of the official $1.60, which will seriously hamper their ability to go on shopping trips abroad for scarce consumer goods...
...make matters worse, rain and temperatures in the 30s were forecast for the area by today. Authorities said that could hamper rescue efforts...
...light last week after a Dallas TV station asked a state judge for a copy of the tape from the plane's cockpit voice recorder. The National Transportation Safety Board, which had released a highly censored transcript of the conversation, asserted that disclosure of the entire conversation might hamper investigations of airline disasters. The Air Line Pilots Association warned that pilots might disable their voice recorders to prevent future "invasion of their privacy" but later added that legislation to ban the release of tapes might be proposed instead. What jittery airline passengers were supposed to make of the crew...
...that the suitcase contained a photo of a drunken Bush making bunny ears behind the statue of John Harvard after a Harvard-Yale game in the 1940s. Bush wanted to dispose of the photo because he thought people might accuse him of "desecrating a national symbol," which could hamper the chances of his flag-burning amendment...
...evicted," says Wade Henderson of the A.C.L.U. "The next step from public housing for many people is homelessness." Kemp's desire to rid the projects of drug dealers and encourage parental vigilance is commendable. But the strategy he unveiled last week seems likely to provoke legal challenges that could hamper its implementation -- and throw some innocent tenants out on the street...