Word: snag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another potential snag lies in splitting up the financial liability among the three parties involved in the Q-RAC's design and construction. A court battle to apportion responsibility could keep the building closed for years. The three parties...
...landslide--it's pick 'em who'll do better. Kennedy of stormin' Pat--and my burn knee says Mario "the Mensch" Cuomo will down Law "my-suspenders-are-sewn-to-my-body' Lehman. In a week or two I'll put a out a line whether the Democrats can snag a Senate majority. The Greek is nodding...
...this week the University's apparently well-intentioned desire to increase student volunteerism hit a snag. Leaders of the 800-person Phillips Brooks operation charged that the College had broken a pledge to hire a PBH officer to coordinate the new University-sponsored program. Without that specific link, said PBH President Ellyn Kestnbaum '83, the two groups would waste time and energy duplicating each other's efforts...
Another possible snag: the A.L.C. requires that any merger be ratified by two-thirds of its 4,900 U.S. congregations. But A.L.C. Presiding Bishop David Preus, until recently a foot dragger on union, predicts a happy ending. Says he: "It is apparent that the rank and file in our church wish to go ahead with dispatch." Remaining outside the process is the conservative, 2.6 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
Harvard's plans for a $25 million office and condominium complex off Mt. Auburn St. hit an unexpected snag last December when the Cambridge Historical Commission voted to prevent for at least six months the demolition of two buildings on the site of the proposed "University Place" development...