Word: snags
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...Barilla family--whose pasta and bread company, based in Parma, Italy, dates back to 1877--hit a big snag in the early 1970s, when the third generation of family managers--brothers Pietro and Giovanni--quarreled and sold the business to W.R. Grace of the U.S. In 1979, however, Pietro bought back a majority stake, this time on his own, and started the company on a rapid expansion course. By 1993, when he died, Barilla produced 35% of the pasta sold in Italy. Now his three sons--Guido, Luca and Paolo--and their sister Emanuela are pushing aggressively into international markets...
...height of the dot-com boom three years ago, students packed into computer science classes, often hoping to snag million-dollar jobs after graduation...
...Best Picture category, Chicago and The Hours are locks for nominations, but bunched behind them are a slew of films jockeying for the final three slots; of this group, The Pianist, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Gangs of New York are most likely to snag the nods. Still, don’t discount the chances of Adaptation, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, About Schmidt and Road to Perdition...
...building in Times Square, I had my ID checked four separate times. I can’t blame them—my MTV screen test was at 1:30 p.m., the precise time when hoards of screaming teenagers crowd the street below the studios, offering anything and everything to snag a seat on Carson Daly’s countdown show...
...swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author of the Science paper. "But sharks often swim in the same area as tuna and swordfish, and that means they can get caught...