Word: gridlocking
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...taking on secondary issues," says Steve Vogel, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. That's why Koizumi's appointment of Takenaka last month to head the financial services agency surprised many, who took it as a demonstration of renewed seriousness about breaking the reform gridlock. Others saw it as a last-ditch effort?the political equivalent of the Hail Mary pass?to salvage any semblance of a lasting legacy...
...sharp contrast with everything else that went on in Congress during the last two years. In 2000, when voters elected a closely divided House and Senate, most pundits prophesied that Republicans and Democrats would learn to work together. Instead, the past two years have been marked by complete gridlock. And despite the constant Republican refrain this fall that Tom Daschle is a tyrannical obstructionist, both parties are to blame. Republicans in the House have spent most of the past six months passing bills they know Senate Democrats will never touch, just so they can tout them during the campaign. Neither...
...have some adjusting to do. Athens will not be Sydney. The Australians staged enormously successful Games in venues built in special sports parks located in open space. But the Games in Athens will be played mostly in older, smaller, refurbished venues scattered amid a dense, urban setting. Critics predict gridlock, but planners speak of a more intimate Games, much like Barcelona in 1992. "We will have Games on a human scale," says Angelopoulos. That will suit Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C.'s new president, who is determined to reduce the scale and complexity of the Olympics. At Seoul in 1988, almost...
...heated negotiations between Harvard and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 seemed for weeks to be making little progress—on Feb. 26, a group of union and student activists were arrested by Cambridge police for civil disobedience as they protested the apparent gridlock by stopping traffic on Mass...
...dolly handles and painted street lines; behind and off to the right, an undulating white canvas runs into a street covering a construction site, thus breaking up that structured rigidity. In the middle background, between the tarpaulin and the worker, cars stream by, having just come out of gridlock. Most unsettling, in the very close left foreground, half a woman’s out-of-focus head protrudes into the image, looking from left to right across the frame. The woman disrupts with her half-head intruding on an otherwise neat and easily digestible composition...