1.   I have not wanted to leave sooner because I did not want in any way to impair efforts to make the necessary changes in baseball.

2.   The SEC letter also asks shareholder support for a proposal to prevent the board from adopting bylaw amendments that would impair an effort to buy the company.

3.   Clinton implicitly urged Israel to rescind the order, saying that boycotts and closures impaired efforts to improve economic relations.

4.   Corruption impairs anti-drug effort in the Caribbean.

5.   Use of encryption devices also impairs antidrug efforts.