Word: unsnarling
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...afternoon when the two men decided to head back to shore, only to find that the anchor of Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl the deal. ''We were lucky we weren't electrocuted,'' says Smith, who carries a blue poker chip in his pocket to remind him to pay attention to blue-chip opportunities. ''But it gave us a chance to keep negotiating and to come up with some good ideas.'' Those notions...
...then reinstating a planned power plant?could be forgotten as Chen pushes through his legislative agenda. As mayor of Taipei, he was a tireless promoter of quality of life issues?shutting down sex shops, getting a light-rail urban transit system into operation, installing special bus lanes to unsnarl Taipei's notorious traffic and beautifying the city...
...that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River Blues and Crossroads casual wear lines. To unsnarl their flow through Sears' supply lines, Martinez hired his own three-star general, William ("Gus") Pagonis, who headed Army logistics during the Gulf...
...major airports will be served by standardized electronic wizardry that will make landings in the thickest fog as safe and happy as the touchdown of a Piper Cub on a balmy April day. The new device, known as the Microwave Landing System (MLS) is also expected to help unsnarl the aerial traffic that often clogs the skies above major airports today...
Helping the nation's cities to unsnarl their traffic jams might seem a top-priority issue for the Federal Government. But the most practical way to do so-partly subsidizing urban mass-transit systems-raises fierce controversy. Members of Congress from suburban and rural areas argue that cities should pay for their own transit. President Nixon also opposes the subsidies, saying they would strain the federal budget...