The proposed rules would limit drilling within 1,000 feet of the tunnels; some experts believe that a setback of several miles will be necessary.
Then, no strangers to life's setbacks, they trudge miles home over muddy, treacherous mountain roads as darkness descends.
The parts are being fixed or replaced, but following derailments in Florida and Maryland and a threat to shut down because of lack of money, the setback on the 150-mile-per-hour Acela was a blow to the struggling railroad.
With new information from a reporter on the front lines, it reported instead something far less optimistic: that allied forces had faced considerable setbacks in Karbala, about 70 miles south of Baghdad, and could even be undermanned there.
The gap created by the controlled explosion on the west bank of the Mississippi would send water rushing at more than four million gallons per second into a basin bordered several miles to the west by a setback levee and encompassing some 200 square miles of farmland.
But, equally, the slightest setback would find him in deepest despair…" This is why, 2,000 miles from home, several hundred Romans could slaughter several thousand barbarians.
The neighborhood has no subway station, and is more than 10 miles from Midtown Manhattan; remoteness has its charms but also its setbacks.
His Olympic hopes were dealt a setback by his fifth-place finish in the racewalk trials, a 31.1-mile event, but he still had a chance to make the Olympic team.
The back-stabbing bonhomie among bureaucrats, marketing types and over-sensitive creative artistes as they struggle to overcome a string of near-disastrous organizational setbacks has a ring of truth, though it is no doubt a million miles from reality.
According to the UN Drug Control Programme, which keeps the most reliable watch, coca cultivation fell last year, but only slightly: from 163,289 hectares (630 square miles) in 2000 to 144,807 in November 2001.The drug warriors have suffered other setbacks.
