"He said we know we're not getting the job done in terms of customer service, and the other thing that hampers us is having too many smaller, older stores," Mr. De Santa said.
It is also one of the many things that hampers efforts to improve life, because very often the targets are not local businessmen and politicians, but the only foreigners who venture here: aid workers.
"In other areas," Ms. Faber added, "particularly for Westchester and Staten Island, we've got larger things that are going to hamper our restoration efforts," including closed roads and the fact the utility has to wait until winds die down to send crews up to fix wires and poles.
One thing that has hampered progress is that physicists still do not agree on how much the new particle weighs.
FaceTime's macOS/iOS-only is the main thing that's hampered my own use of the service, but there are some really nice additions here that are making me rethink the decision.
"I consider myself lucky to work with amazing people at MIT and Harvard Medical School, but it really frustrates me to see my colleagues routinely hampered by small things that have dramatic effects on their productivity.
One thing that hampered previous efforts was the hope inside Israel, America and perhaps privately inside the Palestinian Authority too that Hamas could be felled by the siege.
If, whilst doing the above, you've found things that don't have a home, shove them all in a box/hamper.
Another thing that might be hampering Ireland's cause: a lack of a definitive "Irish" style of rugby.
