Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More miracles occured. A fourth-and-eight scramble for a Crimson touchdown. A lefthanded pass for a two-point conversion and a 14-14 deadlock. A fumble recovery on the Harvard...
Banter between the superpowers can mask a deadlock, a breakthrough or something in between. By the time he got to the White House last Friday, Shevardnadze had been through a well-publicized week of public polemics at the United Nations and quiet conversation with Secretary of State George Shultz. But the new messenger from Moscow had given no clues about whether he was carrying the fresh arms-control proposal that other Soviet officials had been hinting at for two months. The silence surprised his hosts. Was the Kremlin continuing its long propaganda prelude to the November summit between Reagan...
...eliminate substantial portions of their compromises, they might then refuse to pass a budget at all, unless the President agrees beforehand not to cut certain items. It happened in 1983 in California, a state where the governor has a line-item veto. And the results were not exactly ideal: deadlock and delay which left state employees going unpaid for two and a half weeks...
...getting hard to remember the last morning newspaper which didn't feature a story on the interminable budget deadlock, Sadly enough, the facility of passing a reasonable spending bill seems inversely proportional to the necessity. And with the deficit soaring past $200 billion, now is a time of need...
...none too soon. One week earlier a five-day meeting of the group's foreign ministers had broken up without reaching an agreement. The stumbling blocks: last-minute objections by France concerning Spanish fishing rights in European waters and Spanish wine sales in French markets. Efforts to end the deadlock continued through the week. The breakthrough came in a final 16-hour bargaining session led by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. The agreement called for a transition period of seven to ten years, allowing the economically backward Iberian countries to adapt to the Community's policies promoting the free movement...