A host of companies hobbled themselves recently with ill-timed newspaper deals that magnified the impact of declining print advertising.
Yet, when it comes to electronic discovery, a discipline that permeates every type of modern litigation, many of today's lawyers are hobbling themselves through inadequate technology and inadequate access to the appropriate technology skills.
The huge increase in the monetary base is blamed for a spike in interest rates which are themselves hobbling the recovery.
Families of the dead and injured and some of the injured themselves, hobbling on crutches, gathered on Monday and Tuesday last week to hear Mr. Feinberg explain the One Fund Boston, which he will run, created to distribute donations to victims.
By 1981, however, and despite hits including "Gangsters" and "Too Much Too Young", they found themselves hobbled by internecine troubles, which came to a head just as "Ghost Town" peaked.
Of the two, Gilliam's film seems the less suspect, in that it is merely one of many ill-starred productions that found themselves hobbled by the death of their lead actor (a list that includes The Crow, Dark Blood and Plan Nine from Outer Space, in which Bela Lugosi dropped dead and was replaced by a chiropractor who looked nothing like Bela Lugosi).
During Doc Rivers's tenure, the Boston Celtics have made an amusing habit of heading into the All-Star break haggard and hobbled, only to work themselves back into playoff contention.
But it is the nostalgics themselves, pouring cold water on our modern achievements, who hobble that very necessary pride.
"By seeking access to depose high-ranking Al Qaeda leaders captured abroad, defendants could be guaranteed that they would either hobble interrogation efforts directed at their comrades overseas or ensure the abandonment of prosecutions against themselves," the department said.
