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The bigger lesson concerns how democracy’s error-correction function can be impeded when an unnatural uniformity prevails among elites.

Rounds of layoffs, the deferred-resignation plan and other voluntary departure programs, including an early-retirement push, slashed the number of civil servants, impeded work at government sites nationwide and reduced services that Americans rely on.

But that can be impeded by a "world filled with technological distractions", she argues.

He said the amount the former marine was claiming was "wholly unrealistic" as hearing loss had not impeded his career.

The spokesperson said the owner of the car wash “impeded the operation and was arrested for assaulting and impeding a federal officer.”