To make sure that snag was resolved, Mr. McGurk stayed on the phone with a Swiss diplomat who was standing on the tarmac in Tehran, relaying updates to him about each of the Americans as they got off an airport bus and on the plane.
Mr. Guibert and Mr. Pembrooke, 41, the managing director of ITV.com, had first set their sights on buying property in the Loire Valley of France, but when the couple's plans were waylaid by legal snags, they resolved to take on a local project.
On the political side, Mr. Ecevit said he was pleased that snags had been resolved in the timetable for the candidacy for the European Union.
And minor snags can be resolved.
People close to the company say that some of the technical snags are still being resolved by AMD, and as a result the company is expected to have a low-profile launch.
Harron told the Observer that it was working hard to resolve "snagging" problems and that it never committed to fixed completion dates.
Now that Migliorini's visa issues are resolved, the devirginizing documentary will be filmed in Australia, and Sisely is confident the consummation can take place without any more snags.
But other users liked Drupal because they were free to change it themselves by writing new code, or because they were drawn to the sense of community formed when users began to communicate with one another about how to resolve technical snags and how to shape the software's future.
Others said that as a secretary general up for re-election, he wanted to resolve anything that might snag his prospects.
The city also moved closer to resolving one major budget snag yesterday, by agreeing to make an extra $22 million available to the Board of Education for classroom programs.
It will also be the first program to operate under a state legislative measure that expanded the guidelines for regulating PACE programs and should help resolve some of the snags that have troubled other such efforts, she said.
