Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crunch came, most swallowed their doubts and supported the President. "It was a wonderful beginning," Clinton said, extolling the House votes as a "victory for ordinary Americans and for the proposition that this government can work for them again, that we don't have to be mired in gridlock, that we don't have to spend all of our time posturing and dividing and running for cover instead of moving into the future...
...House Speaker)) Tom Foley has put the wood to the newcomers, so I think we're all right with them," says a top Administration official. This is a reference to a meeting with House freshmen last week, when Foley saw early retirement in the new members' futures if the gridlock persists when they face re-election in 1994. "It's a lot trickier with the big guys," says this aide, "and the early signs are troubling." Consider just a bit of the dust already kicked up by some Senate potentates, as described by this official: Paul Sarbanes has "privately signaled...
...idea: an Administration that lives like America, a government that drives its own cars, pays for its own meals and flies coach. Of course, worrying over such things is generally derided as cheap theater that saves almost no money. Yet, as symbolism goes, Clinton's plan to end limousine gridlock and severely limit the use of government planes is gratifying when one considers that a year or so ago flying on a government plane to a dentist appointment was not considered a firing offense...
...suggests a trend, by the 1700s type designers were spending most of their efforts on refining roman letterforms and adapting them to new papers, inks and presses. A Perotist critique of the period would identify a small group of type designers--a power elite --who created a letter-form gridlock. some change occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Newspapers demanded coarse new faces suitable for use in poor printing conditions, Mergenthaler "Corons" resulted from such demands. And while new type-faces once took years to develop, photographic type equipment made reasonable some corporation requests for customized fonts...
...deal," says a top Administration official. "Moynihan supported Bob Kerrey during the primaries. He's not one of us, and he can't control Finance like Bentsen did. He's cantankerous, but he couldn't obstruct us even if he wanted to. The gridlock is broken. It's all Democratic now. We'll roll right over him if we have...