Word: gridlocking
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...suggests a trend, by the 1700s type designers were spending most of their efforts on refining roman letterforms and adapting them to new papers, inks and presses. A Perotist critique of the period would identify a small group of type designers--a power elite --who created a letter-form gridlock. some change occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Newspapers demanded coarse new faces suitable for use in poor printing conditions, Mergenthaler "Corons" resulted from such demands. And while new type-faces once took years to develop, photographic type equipment made reasonable some corporation requests for customized fonts...
...deal," says a top Administration official. "Moynihan supported Bob Kerrey during the primaries. He's not one of us, and he can't control Finance like Bentsen did. He's cantankerous, but he couldn't obstruct us even if he wanted to. The gridlock is broken. It's all Democratic now. We'll roll right over him if we have...
...gridlock is over," said Kennedy, chair of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: Here Comes Gridlock...
...billion a year -- or, as one economic adviser says, "virtually nothing." What's worse, says this Clinton aide, "after going over the list with Congress's key players, it's obvious that cutting any of them even fractionally would require the expenditure of enormous political capital," a prescription for Gridlock...