Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many cooks prospectively spoiling the broth is PR's form of gridlock," Shepsle warns...
...gospel of deficit reduction. Cabinet officers and senior officials were scheduled by war-room operatives for radio interviews and courtesy calls on lawmakers. The Democratic National Committee released a 30-second television ad that will run in four states -- Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada and Wisconsin -- blasting the "forces of gridlock" without mentioning that the chief culprits are a handful of Democrats...
Unfortunately, the Republicans in Congress aren't complying, for the most part. In voting against the Clinton budget in a unanimous block, they look like the sources of gridlock, not activity. Their tepid efforts to devise an alternative package weren't promoted early enough or publicized hard enough. Smaller Republican efforts to play up the White House "Travelgate" scandalette are likely to be both ineffective and counterproductive. Attorney General Janet Reno, who was bypassed in the White House use of a few FBI agents, doesn't seem particularly distressed. And if representatives and senators think every case of political cronyism...
...decade of unsustainable logging, court injunctions and federal inaction, the situation was dire when Clinton came to the White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River...
...generation fails to live up to achievements of the past, so it was probably inevitable that people today would be wondering what happened to the Churchills and Roosevelts and De Gaulles, the Adenauers and Nehrus of yesteryear. Yet the present discontent goes beyond simple nostalgia. A terrible form of gridlock has seized the most prominent nations, from old democracies like the U.S. to the newest, most notably Russia...