Word: unsnarling
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McDonnell is betting that new money and his own management will not only help unsnarl Douglas' production lines, choked with a $3.2 billion backlog in jet-airliner orders, but build a team able "to compete successfully for any future aerospace program." Lewis, a Georgia Tech-educated aeronautical engineer who will move into Douglas as soon as the merger is final, last week got an idea of the size of his job. The company did not even match Donald Jr.'s dismal prediction last July that fiscal 1966 "earnings, if any, would be nominal." It announced a $27 million...
...there. Charles de Gaulle, 73, recovered from his operation, was returning from the Left Bank hospital to the Right Bank Elysee Palace, and the police had thoughtfully blocked off all streets along the route. He made it in six minutes flat; the traffic jam took hours to unsnarl...
...kite was tangled in the power line behind his home outside Houston, and the impatient youngster tried to unsnarl the mess by poking at it with a rake. Zap, crackle, pop. The line short-circuited, burned through and fell, sparking and whipping, onto a chain link fence. That was a job for Superman -but he didn't show. Fortunately another stellar hero lived next door, and Scott Carpenter, 38, came to the rescue. While a second neighbor held the wires down with a board, the astronaut laid into the 120-volt cable with a wooden-handled ax, soon...
...done in the world, in so many fields of human activity. Year by year the world's unfinished business seems to grow greater. We want to send men to the moon, to nourish the underfed billions on our productive planet, to war against insects and disease, to unsnarl the tangled traffic in and around our cities, to draw fresh water from the sea and energy from the sun, to improve the human condition for all, and finally to establish both at home and abroad a more rational economic and political order...
...recommend or veto students for the C.L.G.S., and seemed reasonable enough: criteria for determining which seniors who abandoned their theses might be eligible would vary greatly from department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S. or thesis-cum-tutorial an early deadline meant that seniors could drop the thesis...