Word: deadlocking
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Like other OPEC pacts, the truce came after days of heated negotiations. And like other OPEC pacts, it may prove ephemeral. Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh broke a deadlock when he tentatively gave in to Iraqi Minister Isam Raheem al-Chalabi's demand for a quota equal to Iran's 2.6 million bbl. a day. To accommodate the 1 million bbl. increase in Iraq's quota, other OPEC members gave up a bit of their own allowances...
...dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious or not, is certain to exacerbate the deadlock of democracy over the deficit. By producing a Republican President pledged to resisting new taxes and a Democratic Congress adamant about safeguarding Social Security and Medicare, the sad legacy of Campaign '88 appears to be another endorsement of short-term selfishness...
...Hastings '57, one of the Harvard faithful on Hajj to Cambridge this weekend, was at the Chicago Harvard Club when the famous deadlock locked. "Two-thirds of the people left early, but the rest of us die-hards thought we'd see it through to the end--and let the real Harvard shine through," he said...
Harvard and the Minutemen struggled to a 1-1 overtime tie, the Crimson's second consecutive deadlock...
...junior Steven Cesnek took a shot-turned-into-perfect pass for sophomore Carl Hanks. With Crimson senior goalkeeper Chad Reilly caught out of position anticipating the original shot, Hanks picked up the errant shot and fired the ball into the opposite side of the net for a 1-1 deadlock which survived the two ten-minute overtimes...