Word: gridlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps appropriately, the Olympic-torch route through Washington is the most convoluted of any city's so far, with the potential to replicate the metaphorical gridlock on Capitol Hill with the real kind as 145 torch runners pay homage at every shrine in hopes of slighting no one. It's a touchier city than most: there are three branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college...
Because of council gridlock, Russell began her mayoral tenure two months later than normal, and crisis mediation has taken most of her time...
...active-duty personnel. The next day the Democrats offered an ad called "Empty." With a picture of a Senator's cluttered desk, the announcer says, "He told us...he was a doer, not a talker. Then he told us that he was quitting, giving up. Leaving behind the gridlock he helped create--and now all he offers are negative attacks...
...overtake the imperative. Thanks to the Internet, talk radio, C-SPAN and cable talk shows, voters this year have more direct access to candidates than ever before. The very day that ABC announced its offer of an hour in prime time, Bill Clinton was live on CNBC discussing Senate gridlock over the minimum wage. Then, minutes later, C-SPAN--the All Dole All the Time network when the Senate is in session--showed the majority leader rebutting the President. Internet Websites like TIME-CNN's AllPolitics http:www.allpolitics.com/ routinely include the full text of campaign speeches. But advocates are quick...
Despite the current gridlock on the city council, Reeves does not count himself out for a third term. He said after the speech that he intends to vote for "a good candidate" for mayor...