Even as screaming, self-appointed traffic managers were trying, competitively and ineffectually, to unsnarl the chaotic jam of departing pilgrims piled onto buses and trucks Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of thousands more, many on foot, were pouring into the city.
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Thailand spends millions of baht ( hundreds of thousands of dollars ) each year on foreign experts who give advice about how to unsnarl Bangkok's roads, said Yongyuth Sarasombat, head of the Office of the Commission for the Management of Road Traffic.
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The busiest intersection in downtown Flushing was pitched into darkness on Tuesday night, turning the streets into eerie corridors where stores and restaurants fell silent, while a battery of police officers shrilled their whistles as they tried to unsnarl a seemingly endless stream of traffic.
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While European investigators are trying to unsnarl the mystery of disgraced mutual fund manager Peter Young, executives at State Street Research & Management in Boston are just starting to ask questions about a batch of some of the same speculative stocks in their own portfolio.
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Most parents of my acquaintance would rather unsnarl a boxcar of icicle lights than try to explain to a 5-year-old how Santa and his flying reindeer can deliver toys to all the good little boys and girls across 24 time zones in the space of one night.
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Page, the music critic of the Washington Post, has succeeded where Wilson, Trilling, and Vidal failed, because he was able to unsnarl the complications surrounding Powell's literary rights and to help an ambitious young publishing house, Steerforth Press, bring the writer forward again.
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The Federal Communications Commission has begun an ambitious and potentially thorny effort to unsnarl one of Washington's fiercest regulatory battles : the fate of airwaves coveted by wireless companies for next-generation services but now in the hands of dozens of parties from the Defense Department to amateur radio operators.
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The problem is that after a period of curiosity under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, many Russians, and many in the West, appear to have decided at least for now that the tangle is too vexing to unsnarl, and so they have cast the ball of thread aside, and are devoting themselves to simpler pleasures.
