Word: logjam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week the autumn logjam will begin to break, as Hollywood releases the first of a promising mix of films. Three movies head the insiders' early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine...
...Reagan Administration welcomed the shoot-the-moon investment frenzy, even if it might turn out to be fleeting. Treasury officials predicted that lower interest rates would clear the way for at least a modest recovery in 1983. Said one top Treasury Department official: "The logjam has been broken. I do not think the Fed has changed course significantly, but if this is the psychological reassurance the market needs, we'll take...
...horror and suffering it has generated, the war in Lebanon may have the positive result of breaking the Middle East's diplomatic logjam. Both in Israel and in the Arab countries, preconceptions are being challenged and positions are changing. While few observers would be optimistic enough to suggest that peace is at hand, most agree that a renewed outbreak of war in the Middle East is unlikely in the near future...
...hankering for a showdown, but O'Neill urged his party colleagues not to force the issue. "What are we going to do it for," he asked, "except to embarrass the President?" Jones denied that his aim was to embarrass anybody. "I'm just trying to break the logjam," he said, "and this may be the only way." Some Congressmen are prepared to do almost anything to force Reagan to give ground. They are beginning to realize that unless somebody blinks, there may not be a 1983 budget...
...Government lawyers did not object to freeing the 155 who had already been cleared by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, but filed a motion to stay the release of the other 226. Shoob agreed to give the INS until Sept. 8 to review those cases. Declared the judge: "The logjam has been broken...