Word: hinderance
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Much of the student-run corporation's business comes from walk-in workers who start immediately. The new law will delay these employees and hinder this side of the business...
Bureaucratic bumbling and feuding hinder the effectiveness of exotically named units with high- tech equipment, raising again an old dilemma: How can the U. S. prepare for unconventional war while maintaining democratic control of the military? -- Did pilot oversight cause the Detroit air crash? A mystery deepens. -- In Colorado, convicts learn to be cowboys...
Finally, there is a human problem that could hinder progress in the suddenly vigorous field of superconductivity: the increasing unwillingness of scientists to exchange information about their experiments. At the Woodstock of physics meeting, for example, some were miffed when Stanford researchers, following their presentation, refused to divulge further details of their research; they had been advised by patent attorneys to reveal as little as possible until their work was legally protected. The competition extends beyond legal rights. Two weeks after Chu's record-breaking temperature was announced, the Berkeley team independently came up with the same superconducting compound. They...
...characters (who have names like Wally Wasted, Grief, and Cairo Jones) variously try to aid and hinder the government dissemination of this killing drug, and the conclusion becomes a carefully staged media event which eventually escapes even the government's control...
...meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, Secretary of State George Shultz said Reagan's approach to the Iran crisis was "basically, let's get all the facts out as rapidly as possible." Shultz said he did not believe the refusal of Poindexter and North to testify would hinder congressional investigations of the Iran arms deal and diversion of profits to Nicaraguan insurgents...