Word: deadlocking
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Ronald Reagan expanded the economy and avoided deadlock on spending cuts...
...Harvard-Radcliffe ballroom dance team tangled with archrival Catholic University on Saturday in Memorial Hall, and waltzed to a deadlock...
...obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse yet, the spectacle of Clinton clinging so resolutely to his gay-rights pledge after breaking broader promises on taxes, the deficit and spending projects raised questions...
...with fleshing out his views hope for progress within the hallowed 100 days of F.D.R.-style action promised by the President-elect, but they have already encountered trouble. "For 12 years," says a Clinton adviser, "divided government prevented reform, and Democrats and Republicans piously blamed each other for the deadlock. The very good reform bill that passed last year made it out of the Congress only because the Democrats knew the President would veto it. Now the congressional leadership has indicated they won't go along with last year's bill because they know Clinton would sign...
...Yeltsin team has been toying with other options to break the deadlock between the rival branches of power. One would be to turn directly to the people, as Gorbachev did in March 1991 when he held a national referendum on a new Soviet Union. Radical democratic groups have long been prodding Yeltsin to put the parliament-or-Pres ident question to a similar vote. Another referendum topic that some economists believe to be absolutely crucial to the success of Yeltsin's reforms is whether land ought to be bought and sold: without private property laws, capitalism cannot flourish. The President...