Word: gridlocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these hard times. When uninsured workers live in fear that one illness could wipe out their life savings, it is enraging to hear of the House pharmacy dispensing free prescription drugs, not to mention the private congressional ambulance that protects members from the urban nightmare of emergency-room gridlock. When families who know how to squeeze a dollar until the eagle screams still cannot find the money for a haircut, the House barber takes on a special symbolic weight. When young families cannot get a mortgage on a house, the idea of free loans to lawmakers is bound to rankle...
...modern reader, who will probably be more attentive to Puzo's vivid cynicism and gallows humor than to his gridlock plot. When two nutty M.I.T. students blow up Manhattan's sleazy Times Square area with a miniature A-bomb, it seems as if the author has urban renewal, not tragedy, on his mind...
Even now, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) told President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
Bush's remarkable progress in welding together an international coalition to oppose Iraq's aggression has thrown into even higher relief the sluggish, indecisive pace he has set on domestic affairs since taking office. Lack of progress on the deficit is only one symptom of the governmental gridlock that has become the rule in Washington. Although both the House and Senate passed versions of legislation that would for the first time establish a national child-care system, the bill has been stalled in a conference committee. So has the Clean Air Act, which would curb noxious emissions into the atmosphere...
...showed up, along with a camp following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos. Last year's rally drew 80,000 bikers and produced 2,745 traffic citations, 98 drunk-driving cases, 98 felony drug arrests and 21 accidents that killed three people. This year...