Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to see many hopeful signs in the San Francicso deadlock. Hayakawa claims that he is reaching "meaningful stages of negotiations" with the BSU, but few black students are ready to give up their strike. The teachers' strike is no nearer to solution than it was last week; as Reagan, Dumke, and Hayakawa have remained intractable, the teachers have won backing from other labor unions and other groups of teachers in the State College chain. And although there have been fewer violent clashes in the last few days than earlier, growing numbers of students seem committed to proving that they...
...Nixon had stressed his reliance on the private sector in coping with domestic problems as the principal difference between his approach and the Democrats'. Mills himself is no big spender. His insistence on economies as the price for enacting the income tax surcharge last June caused a lengthy deadlock with Lyndon Johnson. But Mills opposes tax remission as "backdoor spending," a bookkeeping gambit that can reduce the tax base and make the federal budget even more misleading than it already...
...country is increasingly aware of the problems it must solve. The election proved, as the President noted in his proclamation, "the endurance and stability of our democracy, as we prepare once more for an orderly transition of authority." The country avoided extremism and the constitutional crisis of a deadlock in the Electoral College. Despite apathy, the U.S. may now be spurred to reform the archaic laws that could permit such a crisis to develop in a future election...
...Wallace might have tried to barter his electors for concessions from one of the major candidates between Nov. 5 and Dec. 16, when the electors will cast their ballots. If he failed, the selection of the next President might have been thrown to the House of Representatives, where another deadlock might well have resulted. Democrats in the new House will outnumber Republicans, 243 to 192 (the old lineup: 247 Democrats, 188 Republicans) but each state delegation would have had only one vote, dictated by the wishes of the majority of the delegation. And neither party gained clear control over...
...Bruins were the first to break the deadlock and Harvard's frenetically-scrambling style weakened as they pumped in five goals to run away with the contest...