Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gridlock was the broken by a fifth game marred by controversy. Ivy League rules say that the fifth game in a match must be a rally-score game, a contest in which a team can score when the other team is serving. Brown officials, however, opted to play a conventional game. The Bears...
...Halloween, sure, but now isn't the only time to contemplate something scary. In this session of Congress, politics has become so partisan that "gridlock" doesn't begin to describe...
Exasperated after the close of a Congress paralyzed by frequent Republican filibusters, a few Senate alumni have risen to take action -- and exact pledges of reform. Action, Not Gridlock, a bipartisan group, led by former Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), wrote to this year's Senate candidates asking them to announce their support for a ban on filibusters. "Senators are elected to make decisions, not to block decision-making," it reads. Senate offices began kicking around the idea today, although no official responses emerged...
Last week's champ "Gridlock" vs. challenger "Doomsday Cult...
...often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts to cut jobs is anybody's guess...