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I think that Trump wanted to create the illusion of action right at the start of his administration, but his choice of cabinet members and other leaders has stymied his success.

Embedding herself with his family for several years, she reveals the ways poor families are stymied in their efforts to get by — lack of money, lousy landlords, addiction, parental abandonment and more.

That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled – and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.

But the need is great, complicated by the street drugs some people use for self-medication, and progress is often stymied by multiple forces despite billions of dollars worth of investments in solutions.

Phuket was the first place in Thailand to reopen in 2021 after the pandemic stymied international travel in much of the world.