An article on Sunday about a delay by the Agriculture Department in confirming the United States' second case of mad cow disease referred incorrectly in some copies to Representative Rosa L. DeLauro of Connecticut, who said connections to industry impede the department's policing.
John Sifford, a captain in the sheriff's office in Rowan County, where Welch lives, said the gunman's misdemeanor charges would not have impeded the department from issuing him a concealed weapons license or a permit to purchase a pistol.
Strong Power distance may impede heads of department to effectively participate in such negotiations.
"The officer stopped the car and made contact with the operators to learn more about how the car was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic," the department said.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has warned that further cuts to his department could impede chances of economic growth.
Once again, this subjectivity is unlikely to impede a Kerry health department from finding a way to define "cost effective," and apply its new criteria to the drug marketing process.
Yukio Sakamoto, the president and chief executive in Tokyo, believes that using titles like "department chief" impedes decision-making and innovation.
She could have added other examples of the effects of hospital cutbacks in recent years: resources pulled from discharge planning; system redundancies (safety checks) that have been eliminated; and clerical cutbacks that significantly impede communication among hospital departments.
These measures, the department noted, "will impede Russia's ability to develop so-called frontier or unconventional oil resources, areas in which Russian firms are heavily dependent on U.S. and western technology".
Is the state department delaying or impeding the process?
