Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word that describes automobile traffic paralyzed both ways through an intersection). The hacker's lexicon is endless and weirdly witty, and inspiring in a peculiar way: the human language is caught there precisely in the act of improvisation as it moves through a strange...
Director Edward Stone has set a frenetic pace that jams to a halt, like traffic in a rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...
Although TIME'S economists disagreed on the right way to break the budget deadlock and bring down the amount of deficit spending, they all said it was essential to get out of the political and economic gridlock that is causing business uncertainty. A realistic budget compromise would obviously not bring about an immediate drop in interest rates or assure that consumers this summer will feel confident enough to spend the money from the tax cut. But the lack of a budget agreement and the prospects of more huge deficits in the future mean that the debilitating economic uncertainty will...
...businessmen seem convinced. Said J. Paul Lyet, chairman of Sperry: "I don't think the situation will pick up until the fourth quarter, if then." Added Reginald Jones, the retired chairman of General Electric: "We won't see any serious recovery until the emotional and psychological gridlock over the federal deficit is broken...
...become a serious vehicle of transport in some American cities. But when bikes move into heavy traffic, problems of incompatibility arise. The circulatory system of the metropolitan U.S. is designed for cars and trucks, with pedestrians granted their margin on the sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step in the path of a kamikaze ten-speed scorching silently...