Word: deadlocking
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...either 1) pluralities in more than 50% of the states, or 2) pluralities in combinations of states with more than 50% of the voters. If no one satisfied the requirements, the election would then go to the Electoral College which would be slightly altered so that, in a deadlock, a third candidate's votes would be divided between the two top candidates, guaranteeing that one of them would receive a majority...
...dispute over the qualifications of two individuals into a confrontation between the Executive and Legislative branches, the harshness of the President's tone ?all these were the ingredients of a potentially historic breach. If the President persists in his course, the schism could rival Woodrow Wilson's deadlock with the "little band of willful men" in the Senate who opposed U.S. participation in the League of Nations. It is also reminiscent of F.D.R.'s campaigning against Senators who had opposed his plan to pack the Supreme Court with Justices friendly to New Deal legislation...
...Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings a week after the nomination is formally submitted to the Senate. If Blackmun is confirmed, he will complete the nine-man makeup of the Court. The Court has recently postponed hearing many cases, apparently fearing a deadlock among the eight members...
Beyond the immediate deadlock is the threat of growing controversy in which children will be held hostage. Grand Forks, N.D., is now threatening to charge tuition. Langdon, N.D., the future site of an anti-ballistic missile installation, has said that it will bar servicemen's children from its schools unless Washington fully defrays local expense for their education. Finally, HEW said that it has now developed a program of reform that it will submit to Congress some time this year...
Nearly a century ago, the era of Reconstruction after the Civil War ended with the Compromise of 1877. Southern Democrats broke an electoral deadlock and allowed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to become President in exchange for removal of federal troops from the last two occupied Confederate states, Louisiana and South Carolina. Now President Nixon has proclaimed the Compromise of 1970 in order to soothe the South and placate resentful whites elsewhere. By political measurements, he is accurately responding to a prevailing mood. While the President might have renewed his dramatic post-election "bring us together" promise in a television address...