Word: gridlock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...question we really have now is, ‘How serious is the president?’ If he told the Republicans he wanted it done, or if he gave a talk or a press briefing and said ... ‘I don’t like this gridlock,’ it would happen. But I think there’s no strong eagerness on the part of the White House to do that...
...break the gridlock, Musharraf proposed that Kashmir be divided up into seven regions based on geography and ethnicity - and not necessarily on religion. (Muslims are in a majority in most parts of Kashmir.) Next, he said, both India and Pakistan would withdraw troops from these mini-regions, one by one. It would then be left up to the Kashmiris, along with New Delhi and Islamabad, to haggle over whether they wanted India and Pakistan to jointly administer the territories or place them under U.N. control. Could it work? Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop...
...Kerry is good for bonds--stocks because of the dividend-tax issue and bonds for a couple reasons. One is that Clinton's policies produced budget surpluses and Kerry sees things much the same way. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney is saying that deficits don't matter. Then you have the gridlock argument. The bond market would assume Kerry's spending initiatives would get frustrated. So you lower the deficit that way. And Bush does talk about Social Security reform. Under typical proposals, that would add about a hundred million dollars a year to the deficit for the next 10 years...
...matter," one of them told me, "We just did it!" Here's one reason: more than a million Athenians - or around a fifth of the city's population - basically decamped for the duration of the games, most of them hiding out in the islands. Result: the capital's notorious gridlock vanished, and the transport systems worked faultlessly. Those of us who chose to stay did our civic duty as volunteers for the Games. We even scrambled to fill the stadiums so that the events could look perfect on TV - admittedly, we were only occasionally successful at that one. Some...
...sweltering morning in mid-July, several hundred Athenians gathered in the hope of defeating an old stereotype. The Athens tram--shut down in 1960 by a government that thought mass transit was obsolete--was being relaunched to help reduce gridlock at the 2004 Summer Olympics. With the first tram of the new era due to arrive at Syntagma Square at 10 a.m., people spontaneously assembled on the platform to celebrate. "Greeks love a party," explained Maikl Tzamaloukas, 78, before launching into a popular song from his youth--"Go, go/Get the last train!"--and dancing away down the platform...