Word: gordian
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...Hampshire seeks temporary services of a political scientist (Nobel Peace Prize minimum requirement), fiscal troubleshooter (Is New York City too easy for you?) or expert magician (Have you ever levitated Mount Rush-more?) to untie a Gordian knot. The problem: it has no budget. Since midnight June 30, the state has had no legal authority to spend a dime; there is no payroll; the government is now all volunteer...
During the season Hill has been waging a singlehanded crusade to untie the Gordian knots that plague the roundball program such as lack of administrative support, antiquated facilities and absence of spectator support...
...Math of Unemployment," you just tug at the Gordian knot of joblessness. The rate is high, you explain, because women are entering the labor force in record numbers. One is then led to believe that unemployment isn't as bad as it seems because male breadwinners are still working. This is a fallacy...
...circular logic in music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically to make the most of meager material. As a psychological Sesame Street, however, Knots...
...chairman Larry O'Brien ominously put it: "Labor Day is everybody's D-day." Last week, in quick succession, McGovern offered a new and more reasonable tax and welfare program, appealed to the Jewish vote by defending his record on Israel, and tried to cut through a Gordian knot of staff snarls...