Word: gridlocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could just blow the President over shows the depth of their miscalculation," said Vice President Gore.) And the Speaker gave Bob Dole's campaign for the G.O.P. presidential nomination a boost by fueling the impression that it might be time to put an adult in charge to end the gridlock...
...BUDGET GRIDLOCK...
...world's leaders assemble in New York City this week to celebrate the U.N.'s formal 50th birthday, the occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
More than 100,000 people fled inland to avoid Opal, although many waited too long. Lorraine Brown, a bartender and 22-year resident of Pensacola Beach, had intended to stay close by. When she was finally persuaded to leave, she found herself trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some...
...Founding Fathers did not devise a system that was meant to be risen above. It was meant to be mundanely inhabited. Power was meant to be divided and dispersed. Our entire political engine was built precisely to produce conflict, tension, even gridlock. The way to rise above that is not with some man on a white horse mouthing mush. The way to elevate politics is to elect a man with a party and a program and give him a shot. The American way is Franklin Roosevelt, not Juan Peron...