Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media coverage of the event has been overwhelmingly negative. The Cornwall tourist board trumpeted slogans like "come early, stay long, leave late," British Rail added 21 extra trains during the week and last November the Cornish Local Medical Committee urged prospective parents to avoid conceiving, in the expectation that gridlock caused by the eclipse would prevent them from reaching maternity units...
...marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source of all that is infuriating about lawmaking: pork barrels, partisanship, gridlock and the refusal of individuals to occasionally heed their consciences instead of their parties. It is why smart men like Bill Bradley and Sam Nunn and Warren Rudman gave up on the Senate entirely, and why McCain can't seem to get a thing past Trent Lott. America seems...
Bush, for his part, bemoans the culture of partisanship and gridlock in Washington but is mostly silent about the system that funds it. He proposes lifting the $1,000 limit on individual contributions and requiring full disclosure of contributors. But, says McCain, "that's basically the system we have today. The restrictions we have now are a facade." The Senator's current plan, in his McCain-Feingold bill, would ban the unlimited contributions known as "soft money" that corporations, lobbyists and unions can give to national parties, and it would restrict outside, allegedly "independent" groups from running ads to help...
...this gridlock, environmentalists say, is to show it's possible to reduce greenhouse gases without sinking the economy. Solutions include cleaner cars and better wind- and solar-power technologies. Says Greg Wetstone, program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council: "When these kinds of options become available, people will feel less hopeless." Of course, it's also possible that only when people feel less hopeless will they press their leaders to make the solutions available...