The problem of legacy costs -- health care and other benefits for retirees, which are estimated at more than $10 billion -- continues to hamper industry restructuring.
While economists and business executives often worry that more clean-air efforts and stringent environmental regulations would hamper industry and limit the creation of new jobs, Mr. Gore's approach emphasized the carrot of tax savings rather than the stick of restrictions, and it anticipated the growth of new companies and new jobs on the cutting edge of fuel technology.
About 40 percent of India's population is off the power grid, and lack of electricity has hampered industry.
Like Facebook and other companies before it, Brightcove has found that while HTML5 has some clear benefits on mobile as a way to reach everyone with a single set of code, it has trade-offs, especially with media-rich services, that were really hampering industry adoption.
Energy investment is necessary to stop the blackouts which have hampered industry, but notoriously creates little employment.
But will China's pursuit of industrial-policy goals now hamper the industry's progress?
That recommendation caused concern in the online advertising industry, which has said that such a mechanism would hamper the industry's growth and could potentially limit users' access to free content online.
Low population growth hampers service industries that cater to local residents.
The slowdown in shipping along the Yangtze has caused economic distress for some businesses and hampered critical industries.
Trade unions frequently hampered their industries with rules that blocked more flexible and productivity-boosting manufacturing techniques (the United Auto Workers' book of work rules ran to 5,000 pages).
But local regulation of oil and gas development is very strong in Texas, Professor Collins said, and has not seemed to hamper the industry's growth.
