Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streak and broke Perez's service with a series of brilliant shots. "I've never hit so many good shots in one game in my life," Shaw said after the match. But he still had a few good ones in store, and he pulled them out to snag the tiebreaker...
Should plans for the space sailer hit a snag, earthlings could still get their first closeup view of Halley's comet in 1986. Another group at J.P.L. is working on the design of a spaceship that would be propelled by an ion engine; a small, continuous amount of thrust would be provided by the engine's ejecting ions produced when a beam of electrons (generated by electric current from solar cells) is sent through vaporized mercury. Such a low-thrust ion engine could, like the sunjammer's sail, maneuver a ship to a rendezvous with the comet...
Harvard's efforts have not saved the project from struggling through its share of snags and disappointments. One chronic snag is the requirement that all funding go through the fiscal offices of Boston Public Schools, a process Grant described as causing enough red tape to make any simple project a lot of work. Several months ago, the state approved a $55,000 grant to the career development program, but Harvard still has not gotten any money. Somewhere on its journey through the public bureaucracy the contract got lost. As a result, the career development program has fallen behind schedule, Grant...
...Namibia, Kissinger had reason to hope for some genuine progress. South Africa is already committed to the principle of Namibian independence, and last month a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for the transfer of power. The biggest snag is that the negotiators at Windhoek did not include any representatives of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the liberation-and guerrilla -movement that is recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity as the sole representative of the Namibian people. Kissinger's first chore...
...largest chemical producer. Four weeks ago, Du Pont announced that it would report profits for the second quarter slightly lower than those earned in the first three months of the year. Nervous investors took that as an indication that the recovery of the chemical industry had hit a snag, and sold not only Du Pont but the stocks of other chemical companies. In a week or two, chemical issues dropped an average...