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...shrewd as someone setting up an innocent man for a crime. You don't choose the head of the Rotary. You single out the secretive guy at the end of the block with the off-putting tics, who perhaps has a couple of incidents in his past that will hinder an effective defense. That's not Heil, but it's not a bad sketch of the organization to which she belongs...
Etcitty countered by saying that if Benally could not represent the development council, a dangerous precedent would be set. “This would be read so broadly that it would hinder the ability of the Navajo Nation to operate,” Etcitty said. “Many new corporations are starting up, and to say that they need an attorney to speak on their behalf would hinder economic development...
...said Miller, formerly Board of Regents chair of the University of Texas system. University President Lawrence H. Summers, currently in India, was not present at yesterday’s meeting. But three other presidents of Boston area universities said in their speeches to the commission that standardized testing would hinder educational innovation. Boston University President Robert A. Brown told the commission that a school’s own regulation of faculty expectations and grading policies, not a nationally administered test, is the appropriate way to assess educational quality. Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow said in his speech that standardized testing...
Current car AIR INTAKE Since debris can sometimes get caught in the current car's grille and hinder airflow, the new car prevents overheating by drawing in air below the bumper DRIVER'S SEAT By shifting it 4 in. (10.2 cm) closer to the car's midline, the driver is more protected from impacts on his side WINDSHIELD It is built more upright to increase drag and slow...
...clinched the Crimson’s first Ivy title since 2000, but it came at a price: defenseman Brian McCafferty, forward Tyler Magura, and captain Peter Hafner were all helped off the ice with various injuries. Though Hafner’s stitches to the forehead won’t hinder him this weekend, coach Ted Donato ’91 could not comment on the rest of his locker room-turned-infirmary, which includes not only McCafferty and Magura but sophomore forward Mike Taylor, who went down with a leg injury three weeks ago at Brown...