Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth is no patsy, as the Indians' deadlock with Yale last week showed. The Yale match went right down to the last two doubles contests, which were finally called because of darkness. The scary thing is that Yale counted on defeating Dartmouth in the spots where Harvard does not have much of a chance...
...date to lock workers out of 90% of Sweden's industries. Only the cozy personal relations between the chairmen of the opposing federations, who have been negotiating with each other for so long that sometimes they take their wives along and talk aboard a yacht, resolved the deadlock. The settlement may prove nearly as disastrous as a strike, by pricing Swedish goods out of world markets. Swedish labor-already the highest paid in Europe-won a package of shorter hours and higher pay that will boost employers' wage costs by 30% over three years. Example: Stockholm construction workers...
...wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion of their leader, ex-Premier Mario Scelba, in any new Cabinet. Why? Because, naturally, as a bitter foe of the left, Scelba was certain to be rejected by Moro's Socialist coalition partners, and thereby force a new deadlock to plague Moro...
...looked like a deadlock was imminent, but Murphy flipped a perfect centering pass as the clock spun into its last quarter minute, and Johnson slammed...
However, the most troubling aspect of an otherwise helpful discussion of the modern Presidency is Burns's utter contempt for the other branches of the Federal government. With his theory of four-party politics in America (developed in his earlier volume, Deadlock of Democracy), Burns seems to suggest that Congress might just as well be retired completely. The Congressional wings (as opposed to the Presidential wings) of both major parties, he says, are lodged in an antiquated institution which has merely slowed down the business of American government and threatened personal liberty...