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Although prior press reports have wondered if the 76-year-old Suharto's failing health would impair his ability to lead his country out of the current crisis, neither of today's Times stories emphasize this.
Business or program managers are also in the best position to determine how security controls may impair their operations.
Thus, it is clear that Congress crafted the certification provision as a carefully balanced compromise that ensures the President can protect the confidentiality of highly sensitive information, the disclosure of which would substantially impair the operations of government, while affording the Comptroller General the access to information he needs to fulfill his responsibilities under the law.
The NYT lead lays out the political dilemma voting for impeachment instead of censure presents to House Republicans: Voting for impeachment will probably produce a party line House vote, which will impair the GOP's ability to work with Democrats on other issues.
There is a very tight relationship between the potency of activation domains and their stability [ [ 35 36 37 38 ] ]. Activation domains and sequences required for degradation overlap and mutations in the VP16 activation domain which impair its function result in enhanced protein stability [ 35].