Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action was taken on the same day that votes in both the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate expressed disapproval of the sale. Anticipating rejection, Thomson-CSF officials have been scrambling for some time to put together a new offer -- with American partners, including Raytheon, Northrop or Loral. One hitch is that Thomson-CSF placed a $20 million guarantee with LTV for a completed sale by July 31. A new arrangement would depend on the readiness of LTV's creditors to let this deadline slide while a new U.S. review process took place...
...losing attempt to match the value and quality of import models. To ensure customer satisfaction, Saturn built cars at its all-new plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with the crawly pace of a craft shop. It also gained something of a quirky reputation for recalling them at the tiniest hitch...
Reporters have dug up a 1955 letter from Ross to his father, asking the senior Perot to use his influence to get his son out of the Navy before the four-year hitch standard for Annapolis graduates was over. Reason: he found the Navy "fairly Godless" and was constantly offended by the blasphemous language and moral laxity of his shipmates. Perot blithely ignores the question of whether he could really have been that naive and, as he often does when one of his stories is not believed, produces another. The real reason he wanted out of the Navy, he says...
...cleverest move Milosevic made in his years as an ambitious apparatchik was to hitch his star to Ivan Stambolic, a nephew of one of the most powerful Serbian communist leaders. For more than 20 years, Milosevic moved up the communist hierarchy in Stambolic's wake, succeeding him as director of the state-owned industrial gas conglomerate Tehnogas, as Belgrade chief of the Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia...
There's only one hitch. this puzzle has quite a few pieces. Over three billion, to be precise...