Word: deadlocking
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Underscoring his points with dialogues from Bergman's screen plays, the author of Ingmar Bergman Directs, said, "The relationship between man and woman becomes a kind of battlefield for Bergman, where they engage in perpetual deadlock...
...Knee had become a kind of trap, particularly for television. It was obviously a major event that demanded thorough coverage. AIM leaders were so successful in getting their side of the story across, and so enthralled by the attention they were receiving, that they seemed willing to prolong the deadlock for the sake of still more publicity. Most newsmen watched helplessly as the thin line between covering and creating news wavered...
France's Jean Monnet, spiritual godfather of the EEC. In a way they have. With the expansion of the Common Market from six to nine members-and, more important, the breaking of the French-German deadlock that paralyzed it through the De Gaulle era-Europe now seems at what Italian Author Altiero Spinelli describes as "the brink of a moment of creative tension...
...contend that they cannot match the fares proposed by the subsidized European lines. But the Europeans may retaliate by rejecting the Americans' proposal to charge $230 in the off season and $299 during June, July and August for the same service. So unless some compromise is found, the deadlock could lead to a continuation of present fares (minimum price: $313 round trip for 22 to 45 days in peak season, with no advance reservation) or even a rate war after the current international agreement on ticket prices runs out on March...
...hoped that their new advance-fare service would enable them to come closer to meeting those prices, while also allowing them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort by U.S. and European government negotiators to break the deadlock over just how little to charge for the new service have proved futile. Last week representatives of the International Air Transport Association, the scheduled airlines' rate-fixing cartel, began meeting again to make another try at reaching an accord...