Word: gridlocking
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...into a Yankee original in the mold of astronauts Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe and the last Supreme Court Justice to hail from the Granite State, Harlan Fiske Stone. By choosing someone so hard to pigeonhole, indeed, someone from another era, Bush may have created the kind of philosophical gridlock he felt he needed to get his nominee swiftly approved. If Americans are lucky, they will also get the kind of Justice they need -- someone who looks at the law of the land with reverence and the people it governs with respect...
Buying bargain imports, though, is smart, very smart. In Elizabeth, N.J., the grand opening of IKEA's 6.2-acre furniture store in May created nightmarish gridlock usually seen only for the nearby Giants football games. More than 25,000 eager shoppers heading for the Swedish-owned store jammed the New Jersey Turnpike, and 200 others camped in the parking lot overnight to get first crack at the firm's $39 bookcases, $7 rag rugs, $98 pine beds and other basic furnishings. Parents could drop off their children in a play area supervised by store employees before turning to serious shopping...
...cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles that are suffering a meltdown. During the busiest periods, paramedics talk of "medical gridlock." They cannot even unload their ambulances because the emergency room is full, and the emergency room cannot open because every last bed in the hospital is taken. At this point the hospital may go on "bypass" and ask that ambulances be sent elsewhere. But many hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were...
Modesto, Calif., inspiration for hometown boy George Lucas' film American Graffiti, is putting the brakes on the weekend rite of cruising. Last week the city council voted to slap fines of $75 to $250 on teenage cruisers when traffic on the main drag, McHenry Avenue, goes into gridlock...
...passenger traffic in the U.S. has zoomed more than 150% since 1974, yet that was when the last major new American airport opened (Dallas-Fort Worth International). To relieve the worsening jet gridlock, the Bush Administration last week proposed a $47 billion five-year plan to provide new aviation facilities, ranging from runways to air-traffic-control computers. And who will pick up the tab? The Federal Aviation Administration wants 85% of the funding to come from new taxes on jet fuel and tickets, which could add $20 to the average domestic fare...