Word: gridlocking
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...decade of unsustainable logging, court injunctions and federal inaction, the situation was dire when Clinton came to the White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River...
...generation fails to live up to achievements of the past, so it was probably inevitable that people today would be wondering what happened to the Churchills and Roosevelts and De Gaulles, the Adenauers and Nehrus of yesteryear. Yet the present discontent goes beyond simple nostalgia. A terrible form of gridlock has seized the most prominent nations, from old democracies like the U.S. to the newest, most notably Russia...
...inconceivable that they had serious misgivings about the plan's heavy reliance on taxes and loose calculations of spending cuts; yet they felt that some deficit reduction, through dubious (and perhaps deleterious) methods, is better than no deficit reduction and continued gridlock...
...Capitol Hill last week that suggest that this White House may not spend all four years in intensive care. Most were months in the making, and none were unalloyed Clinton wins. But their combined effect broke the gloom that had pervaded the White House and fractured some of the gridlock in Washington. After weeks of intraparty wrangling, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee agreed to a deficit-reduction measure that included a gasoline tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. and a $68 billion cut in Medicare benefits over five years. While a vote in the full Senate...
Cambridge's proportional representation ballot process is a complex and confusing system which we believe contributes greatly to the underlying divisiveness and gridlock in Cambridge's elected government...