Word: snag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University will try to determine if the $250 million plant's diesel exhaust system poses cancer risks to the surrounding community. The tests represent the latest snag in the University's six year-long attempts to begin operating the plant...
...bill to raise the federal gasoline tax 5?per gal. effective April 1 and use the estimated $5.5 billion a year in new revenues to repair highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. It passed the House last week by a resounding 262 to 143, but hit an unexpected snag in the Senate when three of that chamber's controlling Republicans began a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker predicts the bill will pass, but the measure may have to be watered down to make it more acceptable to truckers...
...less than a minute later, Wendy Joseph, subbing at center for Elaine Holpuch, blocked a Springfield shot, pinning it on the boards. Freshman guard Chris Lahey followed her teammate's lead, and put a rebound through the hoop. Co-Captain Frenesa Hall came off the bench to snag several rebounds, and drove down the court to score, unassisted against three Indians...
...system and then giving it to somebody else." Since it is generally cheaper to carry passengers on longer flights with fewer stops, the feeders had the less profitable end of the deal. With regulation eliminated, Piedmont set out to devise a new route structure that would enable it to snag the money-making long hauls as well as the short hops...
...efforts to coordinate a sanctions policy among the allies hit a serious snag...