After years of moral and legal debate, voters have dealt a narrow defeat to a government blueprint for unsnarling Ireland's anti-abortion laws _ and in the process undermined their premier a few months before national elections.
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Chief among them : finding jobs for the city's 290, 000 registered unemployed, unsnarling its chronic traffic jams and making life livable for the 16 million people crammed into this fast-changing corner of the Yangtze River Delta.
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In their scenario, as a breakdown on the approach road to the Ted Williams Tunnel is beginning to jam traffic to the Expressway, the traffic masters punch in their plan for unsnarling it, such as a recipe of closing lanes or broadcasting a detour on message boards _ then have the computer run that scenario and tell them whether it will really improve traffic.
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There was the occasional Tuesday night dalliance with the amusing " Spin City, " or the Monday night date with " Chicago Hope, " which seduced me with a fabulous cast and good writing, but ultimately turned me off with its unbelievable, over-the-top plot lines . ( An episode begins promisingly, for instance, with three women stranded in a cabin during a storm, unsnarling knots in their friendship, only to end with their killing an intruder.
