Word: go-ahead
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Just 2:17 into the second stanza, with the score knotted at two, Landry headed home a Kelly Gately crossing pass in a set corner kick play for the go-ahead goal...
...with a perfect site (the old Briggs Cage track facility) vacated, and a healthy lump of alumni donations. Harvard gave the Columbia Construction Company of Reading the go-ahead to begin work on the new court...
...Mississippi, Canada and Mexico. The two companies tried to merge in 1979, but the Civil Aeronautics Board at the time stopped them, arguing that such a deal would reduce air competition on the West Coast. But in March the CAB changed its decision and gave Continental and Western the go-ahead...
Congress gave Clinch River the go-ahead despite mounting evidence that the reactor is an unnecessary and colossally mismanaged boondoggle-and potentially dangerous as well. Four days before the House vote, an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee staff issued an excoriating report on the project subtitled "A Cost and Technical Fiasco." The report cited well-known problems, like Clinch River's increase in cost from $669 million in 1973 to at least $3.2 billion, and raised again questions about the adequacy of the reactor's safety mechanisms...
...go-ahead actually was granted in 1974, but was stayed pending investigation of charges that aspartame might cause brain damage and that the animal studies submitted by manufacturer G.D. Searle were flawed. The charges were dismissed. However, the FDA says that aspartame should be avoided by victims of phenylketonuria, a condition characterized by the inability to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, that can result in mental retardation. Aspartame contains phenylalanine and will carry a warning on the label...