Word: snag
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...single sweep. Along with pollock and other groundfish, these nets indiscriminately draw in the creatures that swim or crawl alongside, including halibut, Pacific herring, Pacific salmon and king crab. In similar fashion, so-called longlines--which stretch for tens of miles and bristle with thousands of hooks--snag not just tuna and swordfish but also hapless sea turtles and albatrosses, marlin and sharks...
...once rhymed New York Post with "burned us like toast" might be a little wary about a career in the news biz, but CHUCK D of the rap group Public Enemy just signed up to be a reporter on cable's Fox News Channel. Chuck (Carlton Ridenhour) aims to snag younger viewers: he's rap's answer to David Brinkley. "Young people are not optimistic," Chuck says. "We've got to figure out ways to inform them. They're gonna be running things really soon." His first mission (he won't call it an assignment) was to revisit the Philadelphia...
Iscream; you scream; we all scream for ice cream! Or, maybe only I scream, since it's a brisk April day. Time of year is no deterrent for me. I eat ice cream just about every day of the year. Ice cream study breaks always manage to snag me. Yes, I confess. I am a Harvard first-year, and I am addicted to ice cream and its affiliated products...
...divorce of Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson has hit a snag even before it hits the court. Alley sued for divorce in Maine; Stevenson countersued in California. The difference is that in the Golden State the richer partner typically has to share more of her wealth. Alley maintains that the two vote, register their cars and pay taxes in Maine (where they adopted their two kids). Stevenson says they've lived in California since the '70s. He's seeking spousal support and joint custody...
...there was a snag. Jimmy Carter had instituted an informal ban on U.S. manufacturers' selling sophisticated offensive weapons like F-16 and F/A-18 attack fighters to Latin America, because most military strongmen wanted the jets for flybys over the presidential palaces they occupied. Every American President since Carter supported the prohibition. If Lockheed Martin, which produces the F-16 Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas, which manufactures the F/A-18 Hornet, wanted in on the Latin American arms market, they had to change that policy...