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...miscues with a resupply ship would not create such suspense. But a series of foul-ups had left the space station in a precarious state. A resupply mission scheduled for late July had to be canceled for lack of a rocket. And while a previous mission arrived without a hitch, the edibles had mostly disappeared -- looted, say insiders, by underpaid, overworked ground-support technicians...
...number-one singles, Chung took on what he described as a "tough opponent" and passed almost without a hitch, winning...
Sheriff John P. McGonigle has been opening and closing Commencement ceremonies for almost 10 year now without a hitch. Two weeks ago, McGonigle was indicted on charges including extortion, racketeering and filing false tax returns. McGonigle pleaded not guilty to the charges in the U.S. District Court...
...under greater scrutiny. A 1992 General Accounting Office report said the academies, which are free to the student, except for a commitment to serve for five years in uniform, cost about $250,000 a graduate. ROTC costs about $60,000 apiece and usually requires a four- or five-year hitch. OCS costs about $25,000 each, and its service obligation varies. The academies cost more because each is a "four-year- immersion experience," says David Palmer, retired three-star Army general and West Point superintendent from 1986 to 1991. "That's very different from ROTC, where...
...less than 24 hours, authorities in Moscow gave the green light for the factory to resume production of my companion's desired items. There was only / one hitch: because of delicate political considerations involving a large sale to an Islamic client, the factory director explained, Moscow would prefer to create the appearance that a private company in Slovakia had purchased the units and exported them. The manager scrawled a note and handed it to my companion: "This is a Slovak trading company in Moscow. Go there, and they will make the necessary arrangements...