Word: unblocking
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...there such a thing as writer's unblock? King, who works virtually nonstop, regularly churning out two and sometimes three books a year, provides a clue about how he is able to manage such a forest-clearing output. In his introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin had explained the drops as a way to demonstrate the West's determination to get relief supplies into the Muslim enclaves by ) any means possible, so the Serb forces might as well unblock the roads and allow the U.N. truck convoys to pass. Though a considerable part of each U.S. drop fell on or near Serb positions, the Serbs apparently decided to cut off entirely the resupply of their enemies by seizing the enclaves...
...have little or no effect in others. In many instances of heart attack, the coronary artery is not obstructed by a blood clot but by a fatty deposit known as a plaque. Since plaques are not susceptible to drugs like t-PA, other methods must be used to unblock the artery...
...Salvador on the road from military-backed despotism to civilian democracy. Put more bluntly, the Administration argument is that free, open and honest elections are worth defending: the choosing of a Salvadoran President for a single five-year term would give the White House a greater chance to unblock some $250 million in additional military aid to El Salvador that is stalled in Congress...
...vindication of Sadat's political strategy. Egypt's President has been roundly criticized by left-wing Arabs for accepting aid from Saudi Arabia's conservative King Faisal (see box page 26). Last fall he was heavily pressured by army officers to make enough concessions to unblock the flow of Soviet arms. The army's concern was clear: since the October 1973 war, Egypt had received only two shipments of Soviet spare parts. Brezhnev's visit was considered a propitious omen; when he canceled out, the pressure on Sadat resumed...