Word: deadlocking
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...both the men and the women, Penn State, a perennial national powerhouse, presented the biggest challenge. Although the Nittany Lions looked to avenge last year’s 14-13 loss, the team fell a maddening one point short again. With the match in a 13-13 deadlock, both teams watched in suspense as junior epee fencer Benji Ungar’s final bout clinched a Crimson...
...over the next 30 years. A left-leaning nationalist, Ecevit's reforms at home were overshadowed by his hawkish foreign policy. Despite international opposition, Ecevit ordered Turkish troops into Cyprus in 1974 following a Greek-backed coup. His intervention split the island in two, and led to decades of deadlock with Greece...
...unregistered car matching the description of a vehicle at the crime scene. But when prosecutors asked for other evidence to be handed over, Greek-Cypriot authorities in the south refused, demanding that the trial be held on their turf. United Nations mediators tried but failed to break the deadlock, and the suspects were soon released from custody and remain at large in northern Cyprus and Turkey. "It's a sad story," the Greek Cypriot Attorney General Petros Clerides told Time. Sad - and typical. For 32 years, ever since an Athens-backed coup d'état triggered renewed fighting between Greek...
...perception that North Korea's defiance has forced the U.S. to deal with nuclear arsenal as a fait accompli. Even before Pyongyang's test, Iran's position appeared to be hardening against a compromise with the Western demand for suspending enrichment. Tehran's leaders appear to believe that a deadlock in which they continue enrichment while facing limited sanctions will ultimately force the West to make more concessions to Iran's terms. That confidence is helped, no doubt, by the crisis in Iraq, where the U.S. prospects of stabilizing the situation may depend substantially on Iranian cooperation. In the wake...
...described the detention of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as "reasonable enough." But ironically (tragically, really) ordinary Burmese who rejoice at Thaksin's departure will share a sentiment with their own oppressive rulers. Burma's generals will celebrate the Thai military's takeover, and the months of political deadlock that preceded it, because it proves what they've insisted all along: democracies don't work and civilians can't run countries. Burma is a large, ethnically diverse nation scarred by civil war, and the military has always presented itself as the only guarantee of national unity (while simultaneously running...