Word: hampers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...England Living Magazine, Manchester, N.H.: Aeneas Venture is financing the fledgling periodical, which is geared toward affluent New England residents sick of reading about Boston's perspective on the region. The publishers are optimistic, but the declining strength of the local economy may hamper the venture's success...
Whatever the cause, racism in one form or another, subtle or blatantly obvious, plagues many Asian Americans. Sometimes strong biases brought over by the immigrants themselves -- including racial prejudice, clannishness and a $ reluctance to make problems public -- hamper their assimilation into the majority. More often, however, Asians are the victims of discrimination. The very visible success of some Asian immigrants and the power of Asian finance have triggered a backlash...
...season of material provided by Dexter Lehtinen, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Lehtinen had scarcely moved into the limelight as the prosecutor of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega before he was burned by it. Some lawyers questioned whether his lack of trial experience would hamper his conduct of the case. Finally Lehtinen announced that he would turn it over to two experienced prosecutors, Michael P. (Pat) Sullivan and Myles Malman. They come to the case late, but it will probably be at least a year before the trial begins...
...strengthen their case, prosecutors are sifting through documents seized by U.S. troops who invaded Noriega's Panama headquarters. Noriega's attorneys are likely to claim that the military's warrantless search makes the evidence inadmissible in court. Few legal observers expect that objection to hamper the prosecution; American constitutional safeguards usually apply only within the nation's borders...
...plea bargain would prevent a trial and possible release of documents sensitive to national security or embarrassing to the government. The potential threat of documents being released could hamper U.S. prosecutors...