Word: gridlock
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...conscious Holland, however, there hasn't been a huge outcry from motorists over the proposal - everyone agrees that something needs to be done to ease the country's overloaded road network. The Netherlands may be known overseas for its cycling culture, but outside the country's city centers, gridlock is the more dreary reality. Vehicle use has risen sharply over the years, but road capacity has yet to catch up - in part due to lack of space. Previous attempts to reduce traffic - from offering incentives to people who carpool to giving away free croissants and newspapers on public transport - have...
Yesterday, leaders from across the globe joined their negotiators at COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After a week of conflict, disagreement, and near gridlock, the “pessimistic tone” seemed to lift when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced America’s support for a global pool of funds to help poor countries that will face negative impacts from global warming. This offer demonstrates a laudable attempt to move the negations forward, although details still remain unclear regarding America’s contribution to the pool. As the conference comes...
...currently visiting at Harvard—wrote in his fantastic “Our Undemocratic Constitution,” the continued existence of the Senate agitates not just against the passage of foolish legislation, but of wonderful legislation as well. This is a recipe not for prudence, but for gridlock...
After weeks of gridlock, Iraq's parliament passed a law that will enable the nation to head to the polls in January for the second time since the constitution was ratified in 2005. The milestone agreement, which was brokered with the help of U.S. and U.N. officials and must be approved by the country's presidential council, paves the way for the scheduled withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops by August...
...conditioned cars, offering up everything from roasted peanut to balloons. Lately, though, the street vendors have added another item to their eclectic wares: posters of the country's recently re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The hawking of new merchandise in some of the world's worst gridlock is a fitting metaphor for a country that hopes to add a second I to the so-called BRIC emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Just as SBY's second five-year term will draw to a close in 2014 - by which time he has vowed at least 7% economic...