Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long, multistate health-care blitz. The goal was to jump-start the Administration plan while Congress was out of session -- and in the process put the President back on offense after weeks of answering Whitewater charges. One group of Democratic lobbyists and public relations executives who "want action, not gridlock; problem solving, not partisan bashing" even announced the formation of the Back to Business Committee to make sure that crime and welfare reform and health care did not get drowned in Whitewater. By the end of the week there were signs that the strategy was working. A TIME/CNN poll found...
...moment Bush does not see a need to change the way the presidency is organized, to shape it more like a parliamentary system to prevent the gridlock that plagues the U.S. government. "I don't buy into this bit about how intelligence failed or the machinery didn't work," he declares. "I could make a case for a single, six-year term. But I don't feel passionately about it." He does feel deeply about "a capacity for loyalty, that you don't chicken out when somebody's in trouble and pull away for self-gain." He has a strong...
...Zhirinovsky's appeal was read much like the maverick presidential challenge mounted by Ross Perot in 1992. Zhirinovsky, too, campaigned skillfully as an outsider. He slung verbal Molotov cocktails at a system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent...
...past reform campaigns against drugs, smoking, pollution and drunken driving, an informal alliance of opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...
While it is true that many of Clinton's successes have come about by compromise, few Americans would with for a return to the stubborn gridlock that was the norm in Washington before this year. And after all, compromise is an essential aspect of politics; Clinton has demonstrated that he has mastered this concept...