51.   Federal highway funds are already being withheld from the area because of air pollution, and the problem is beginning to hamper efforts to attract industry, Barnes said.

52.   Foggy seas hampered search efforts Tuesday, as rescuers from the Center for Coastal Studies were waiting on shore for word of another sighting.

53.   For most of the first decade of the manhunt, the three federal agencies involved operated separately, a situation that some critics believe hampered their efforts.

54.   Foul weather and strong currents have hampered the efforts.

55.   Giuliani, in turn, sharply criticized Ms. Feldman, saying her outspoken opposition to the pay raises had hampered her efforts to sell the agreement.

56.   He also expressed fears that sturdier windows might hamper efforts to enter homes by firefighters, posing a further risk to the inhabitants.

57.   Government officials worried that relief efforts would be hampered by the inaccessibility of the region.

58.   Hampering efforts to produce more airplanes has been shortages in raw materials and airplane parts and productivity inefficiencies from adding thousands of new employees, Boeing executives said.

59.   He made the same appeal to Peres, complaining that Israeli missile strikes had hampered Palestinian efforts to round up militants.

60.   Heavily armed bandits, greedy warlords, severe weather and a landscape dotted with land mines are hampering efforts to bring relief.