Word: deadlocking
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...across-the-board rate cut in the courts, the no-fault plan has a chance to work. The legislature's insurance committee did agree last week to let insurers refuse to renew policies for some bad drivers, but insurers regard the change as inadequate. If the deadlock persists, Armstrong fears, there will be "a domino effect." Some auto insurers will pull out of the state; other companies, unhappy at the prospect of taking on money-losing business, will either resist writing new policies on unwanted high-risk cases-or else quit the state. Eventually, many drivers with less-than...
...odds against Buckley are still quite high; his major hope is a three-way deadlock with a few votes to spare on his side. Should he lose, the Buckley family might not be entirely distressed. "My father thought politicians disreputable as a class," Bill observes, "but I think he would have been enthusiastic about Jim's candidacy...
...Boxes of their grapes, bearing the union's stylized black eagle, were exempt from the boycott. After the May harvest, the unionized growers found their grapes bringing 250 to $1 more per box than boycotted produce. That hard proof of the eagle's economic pull broke the deadlock with the larger group of growers...
...been deliberately triggered at a high altitude, offshore, to show them its power but spare them its hideous consequences. If they do not want the next Bomb on one of their cities, they must surrender within a week. Six days later, the Emperor himself breaks a Cabinet deadlock by declaring that Japan must submit...
...theory, and sometimes in practice, electors can vote for anyone they choose, candidate or not.) In case a deadlock sent the election to Congress, Ervin's plan would also require that all the members of Congress, each having one vote, make the decision. As it is now, the House of Representatives alone decides, with each state delegation having exactly one vote. If the 1968 election had gone to the House, Alaska would have had as much voice as California-a clear affront to majority rule...