Word: deadlocking
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Perhaps it was the advent of Christmas that focused the minds of Belgium's squabbling factions, who finally joined together Friday to form an emergency coalition government. Because there have been precious few gestures of goodwill between Belgium's Flemish and French speakers during six months of political deadlock that seemed to tear the country apart...
...State elections in India are usually decided on very different issues than national elections; the country is vast and in many ways fragmented. But with the ruling Congress Party suffering from a deadlock with its own Communist allies over a controversial nuclear deal with the U.S., the Gujarat vote will give Congress leaders a good idea of what popular support they still enjoy. If Congress does well - polls suggest that the election is too close to call - it would embolden the party to call a national poll early in 2008 to break the impasse with its coalition partners. If Congress...
...history. But before Harvard officials can break ground on what will be a 589,000 square-foot construction project expected to cost nearly $1 billion, they must iron out the details for how they will spend over $21 million in community benefits. After over a month of deadlock over how to prioritize the broadly defined benefits outlined this spring, the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum yesterday presented the task force with a three-page document outlining community benefits that Harvard should provide in conjunction with building the science complex. The list includes a kindergarten through eighth grade school...
...lately attempted to do is to resolve the IAEA's original complaint without actually turning off its centrifuges. For the U.S. and its allies, however, the key objective is preventing the Iranians from mastering the enrichment know-how that would allow them to produce bomb material. And so the deadlock continues...
...rugby is. The game's crying out for less kicking and more running. A radical idea: except where foul play has occurred, penalty kicks at goal should be permitted only from within the opposition 22. (And league has it right with its single-point field goal, used as a deadlock breaker rather than a means of accumulating points when the attack has conked...