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McAuliffe and her six fellow crewmates were indeed ready, but the weather was not. A cold front was moving down the Florida peninsula, pushing showers ahead of it. While rain does not hamper takeoffs by airplanes, its impact on a space shuttle at the speeds it reaches shortly after lift-off could damage the heat-resistant tiles that protect the craft's thin skin. Challenger would not blast off even into a drizzle...
...celebrators at yesterday's "Grand and Gala Ribbon Cutting and O-Fish-ial Opening of Briggs Hall" did not let concerns about the future hamper their enjoyment of the present...
...yearlong cutoff of U.S. aid did not hamper the contras' recruiting efforts. Indeed, the FDN claims to have grown from 6,000 to more than 14,000 men. Though the contras suffer from occasional equipment shortages, about $10 million in private donations from conservative groups in the U.S., Taiwan and South Korea have largely made up for the lost...
Prosecutors are using one new ploy to hamper gangsters' ability to retain legal talent. They are invoking the forfeiture provisions of drug and racketeering laws to seize any attorney fees paid with illgotten gains. In a Colorado case last month, a federal judge disallowed such seizures, saying they violate a defendant's right to the legal representation of his choice. But last week in New York, another federal judge allowed prosecutors to subpoena information about the source of the fee paid to a lawyer in a narcotics case. Said Judge David Edelstein: "In the same manner that a defendant cannot...
South African law will also severely hamper any attempts at information gathering and "intensive dialogue." The 1978 Protection of Business Act, passed in response to the Sullivan Principles, "restricts the enforcement in the Republic of certain foreign judgements, orders, directions, arbitration, awards, and letters of request; (and prohibits) the furnishing of information relating to businesses in compliance with foreign orders, directions and letters of request...