Word: gridlocking
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...vogue; Alabama's new "drug-barons law," for instance, mandates a life sentence without parole for high-volume traffickers. Where the states will house drug dealers and pushers while they serve out their long sentences is another question. Most prisons are jammed, and urban court systems are rapidly approaching gridlock...
...sculpture after 1910 wanted the liberty that painting had already . claimed -- the unobliged liberty of thought itself. It extracted new models from the changing culture around it, from painting and music, anthropology and psychoanalysis, from the idea of the "primitive" (that escape route of a culture stuck in the gridlock of its own sophistication) and the dream of a utopian machine future. One could have a sculpture that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like...
Manhattan, the island borough of 34 square miles, the city that gave us gridlock, each day invites in 877,000 motorists and then does not let them park. Over our coffee we trade hints on what it is not too illegal to do with our delivery trucks there. We tell tales of cabbies and their refreshing obscenities...
Last week as the General Assembly opened, the motorcades of the Presidents of Peru and Brazil sat stuck in stretch- limo gridlock, while outside the U.N. the first of countless demonstrations--includi ng one organized by the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews and another protesting the Afghanistan invasion--pressed against police barricades. As Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz hymned the praises of peace inside the vast General Assembly chamber, sharpshooters crouched on nearby rooftops, police helicopters whirred overhead, and U.S. Coast Guard boats patrolled the East River, which courses past the U.N.'s great...
...Reagan sweat his way to success this time? Even the best of leaders may try his magic once too often. A lot of people in Washington think Reagan must make another move on the deficits soon or risk a political gridlock of serious proportions. Lobbyist Charls Walker casts his practiced eyes out over the country and sees "increasing economic pain" in autos, steel, textiles, agriculture, chemicals and oil. "This thing could turn quickly," Walker counsels his clients. "Economic euphoria could vanish. This is not an issue that will wait for a solution. This needs presidential leadership...