The Endangered Species Act gets a lot of flack for its budget, its long project trajectories, and its ability to hinder development planned by businesses and landowners.

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It will explore mechanisms for setting benchmarks and targets, for overcoming obstacles that hinder development of early childhood care and education services and for monitoring progress towards service delivery.

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Cheap loans encourage an overdependence on bank lending and hinder the development of capital markets.

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As they become more widely publicized, the North's abysmal economic and political conditions will surely hinder the development of relations with the outside world.

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The Associated Academy of Pediatricians is urging parents to keep kids away from TV screens at least until they turn two, citing data that television can hinder important development especially in toddlers.

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And the yet-to-be-named post-Kyoto agreement on climate change would likely hinder our economic development through regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Excessive, unnecessary and scientifically unjustified regulatory burdens significantly hinder innovative research and development with cisgenic and transgenic (genetic constructions in which genes are moved across so-called natural breeding boundaries) genetically engineered plants.

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To that end, President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk announced the convening of a high-level U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable that would foster a collaborative government and private sector discussion to identify new commercial opportunities, promote innovative research and development cooperation, and to address obstacles that hinder commercial growth.

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