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Christine D. Costigan, named by Mr. Gaffney in March to head the real estate division, cautioned against changes that would hobble negotiations.
They also worried that paying a high ransom would encourage abductions of more of their workers that would hobble their businesses.
The two houses of the Ohio Legislature approved a far-reaching bill on Wednesday that would hobble the ability of public-employee unions to bargain collectively and undercut their political clout.
Yet the fiercest debate seemed to center on 39 riders attached to the bill that would hobble the regulation of big polluters and direct an additional $55 million in subsidies to oil and gas companies.
For the first time in decades, the owners were not trying to pressure the players to swallow a major concession that would hobble free agency and drastically pull down salaries.
Nearly a decade earlier, Robert A. Caro's biography, "The Power Broker," monumental in its own right, had brutally punctured the Moses myth, depicting him as an arrogant genius whose ruthlessness spawned a backlash of decentralization and community vetoes that would hobble his possible successors.
Nobody figured that Clemens would hobble off the field after one inning, or that Martinez, who dominates large bat-wielding sluggers, would be conquered by something as benign as a pitch count.
Establishing the truth about what the French did to the Jews during the war, he said, would lift a dead weight that would otherwise hobble the Republic far into the future.
In June, while legislators considered a budget with reduced revenue sources that would further hobble higher education in the state, the perception was that taxes were not being raised.
Seeking to discount the significance of the vote, Mr. Steel denied that it would hobble him in his negotiations with Dr. Owen.
The National Association of Prosecutors has also condemned the initiative, arguing that it would hobble the work of public officials who "work tirelessly to fulfill their constitutional duty to defend the public patrimony".
