Word: hampers
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...smart to embrace it. Her approach follows the tack taken by Hillary Clinton in February during her first visit to China as U.S. Secretary of State. Clinton, who has also been critical of China's human-rights record, said she wasn't going to allow the issue to hamper cooperation on climate change and the global economic crisis...
...Medellin's main crime organization, 33 people were killed in a week, according to the city's police. The renewed upsurge in violence led to the government dispatching some 500 soldiers and 6,800 police to poor neighborhoods in the city. But major crackdowns do not seem to hamper the drug trade. In the last few years, several high-profile drug lords have been arrested and extradited to the United States. However, Isaacson notes, "the cocaine continues to flow...
...terms of jobs loss, both at the company and suppliers. The figures which are over a million unemployed are probably not accurate. GM has already fired too many people and so have its suppliers. But, an event that pushes even several hundred thousand people out of work would hamper the Administration's efforts to get unemployment under control...
...that nearly 70% of Thais want Thaksin to stop inciting unrest and allow the government to work at solving the economic crisis. With the Thai economy set for a potential contraction of up to 4% this year, the Asian Development Bank said earlier this week that political infighting could hamper the effectiveness of the government's $44 billion economic stimulus program. The fate of that program, and the government itself, may rest on events surrounding the protests. And once again, most Thais can do little but watch, and wait...
Still, that's exactly what Assaf says the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq hopes to do. It plans to continue advocating against articles in the law that he says will hamper its work. "We are supposed to be building a new Iraq," he says. "We don't want it to just be a slogan...