The veterans'hasty, voluble defense of their operations, coming the day after the gruesome Moscow cemetery bombing, left Russians once more to unsnarl a thicket of crime entwining outlaws and victims in uncertain roles.
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The market turmoil is being compared to the most painful financial disasters in memory, including the regional debt crisis that plunged dozens of Latin countries into recession in 1981 and took more than a decade to unsnarl.
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It's a pretty picture and it will get its star, but I think we owe it to the readers or the image-users to unsnarl some of this confusion if we are good encyclopedians.
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Seconds earlier, he admitted that he had not given anyone a jaywalking ticket since being assigned to patrol the barricades the Giuliani administration erected in midtown last December, in the mayor's effort to unsnarl traffic.
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Although plans are under way to help redesign and unsnarl the 101-405 freeway interchange in Sherman Oaks, transportation officials say they see little chance of extensive widening or double decking along the 101 any time soon.
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As he does every morning, Shannon, the Trinity goalie, rolled out of bed and did 300 sit-ups, not to maintain a washboard stomach, but to unsnarl the pretzeled muscles in his aching back.
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The border mess is the latest signal that Union Pacific, the nation's largest railroad and dominant carrier along the Mexican border, has yet to unsnarl the chaos resulting from its acquisition of Southern Pacific in 1996.
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If Sal Costello has his way, an ambitious plan to unsnarl Austin's streets by requiring motorists to pay to drive on once-free highways will exact a huge toll on elected leaders who endorsed the effort.
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The inspector general's most recent work is a secret 700-page opus ( reduced to a bland four-page public summary ) that attempts to unsnarl the tangled affairs of the CIA's station in Guatemala.
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Rep . Brad Sherman, D-Woodland Hills, has requested $ 1.5 million to help unsnarl the 101-405 freeway interchange and $ 500, 000 to fund an ongoing study of possible San Fernando Valley secession from Los Angeles.