Word: hampers
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McNealy espoused a more libertarian perspective for approaching the Internet and emphasized that extensive regulation will hamper freedom of communication...
...determine the trade balance and trade barriers do not affect such flows. However, trade barriers do hurt the American economy by denying it the benefits of producing for and competing in an additional market. In particular, such barriers, by limiting the number of goods individual U.S. industries can produce, hamper the efforts of American companies to achieve economies of scale the greater efficiency achieved by producing a large amount of a certain product...
...planned and was scheduled, then delayed, at least once, two days beforehand. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, concern rose that Islamic militants would take revenge not only on Israel but also on its partner in peacemaking, the Palestinian Authority headed by Yasser Arafat. An Islamic backlash could hamper the smooth running of the first Palestinian general elections, scheduled...
...biggest concern for most junior faculty members, though, is that assuming a senior tutorship would hamper their chances of getting tenure...
There were dueling Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill. Federal bank investigator L. Jean Lewis told a House panel that government higher-ups engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the S&L that is at the heart of the Whitewater case. At the Senate hearings, former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum adamantly told skeptical Senators that his controversial search of the late Vincent Foster's files was but one of the many "right calls" he made to protect legitimate confidences and was not a Whitewater cover...