Word: deadlocking
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...Harvard run—including a kill by senior outside hitter Abe Marouf and three by junior middle hitter Seamus McKiernan—finally allowed it to break free of the deadlock and complete the sweep with a 30-27 clinching frame. The match also opened with a fiercely contested game. Both sides dug balls and traded points until a 7-1 Crimson run put it ahead 13-7. Endicott fought back, taking 11 of the next 19 points to pull within three...
When it became clear that Clayton and Mullen Jr. were not going to budge, producer Steve Lillywhite was brought in to break the deadlock. "They played me the record," says Lillywhite, "and it was, well, it had the weight of the world on its shoulders. It certainly wasn't any fun." After several lengthy meetings, Bono and the Edge caved. "The songs were good," says Bono, "but good won't bring you to tears or make you want to leave your house and tour for a year. The bastards were right...
...Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982 with his Soviet counterpart in an attempt to break an arms-control deadlock. The agreement they reached failed to win approval, but his efforts paved the way for an arms deal between the U.S. and the Soviets in 1987. Though regarded as a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze in recent months had become a critic of U.S. war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...Alas, while several replication trials have since supported Spiegel's findings, an equal number have done the opposite. Kissane, along with the Thursday Girls' current therapists Christine Hill and Fiona McDermott, suspects variations in methods may explain the inconsistency and is looking to the Melbourne trial to break the deadlock...
...nuclear arms race. An original cold warrior, he believed in countering the Soviet Union with military strength, although he may be best remembered for his 1982 attempt at conciliation, when he invited his Soviet counterpart to take a walk near Geneva in an effort to break a deadlock over another arms agreement. The ploy failed?it was later the subject of the play A Walk in the Woods?but it began a push toward arms control, and Nitze later helped craft a treaty between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Although a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze had become...