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Even when the rains come, they can be a cruel gift. Heavy downpours swept over parts of southern Africa two weeks ago, breaking a harsh drought. But they also destroyed some of the more delicate plants that had survived the dry spell, and the soggy ground will hamper distribution of maize meal recently shipped into the area...
Reagan had threatened to veto an earlier version, passed by the House last May, which would have cut defense spending more drastically and imposed harsher arms control restrictions. The administration feared that the bill would hamper the United States in arms negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...clause in the bill which called for the creation of a new state board that has the power of review over all development. "It is a potentially horrendous situation." He raised concerns about how the committee would interact with developers and said he feared the outside group could hamper new development...
What happened was a strong grapevine encouraged something which turned out to be quite reckless. This information receive in the first year of the graduate career turned out to hamper some students' search for housing. I'm glad I was skeptical enough to take action that led me to find housing off-campus, but I'm furious at what I was being led into by my fellow students. Martin V. Hildebrand, GSAS...
After noting that Soviet negotiators privately proposed the idea during July talks on nuclear testing in Geneva, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater warily responded, "We don't really know the specifics of what the proposal means." But the Administration continues to reject a total test ban, which would hamper its plans to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal...