Word: logjam
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Miramontes' offer is part of a calculated--and well-publicized--effort to break a logjam that has stymied researchers since the start of the AIDS epidemic. Scientists know vaccines are the best way to stop the spread of a deadly virus, but there is no way to determine how effective a vaccine is in humans without putting some humans at risk. The situation with AIDS is especially frustrating because the safest preparations tested so far don't seem to work that well--at least on animals--and the most effective ones are not that safe. In fact, because the AIDS...
...What broke the logjam is a tradable-permit system for acid-rain control," Stavins said. "That was an idea that came directly from Project...
Right on both counts. The first six months following Chirac's election were a lovefest. When France's leader touched off a worldwide furor with his decision to resume nuclear testing, Clinton refused to make an issue of it. The two Presidents cooperated to break the military and diplomatic logjam in Bosnia. Then the Gaullist Chirac gave NATO a welcome surprise by declaring he would bring France back into the military structures from which his political idol, Charles de Gaulle, had so haughtily withdrawn in 1966. But then the second part of Chirac's prediction kicked...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott seemed to understand this distinction at the end of the congressional session last summer, when he broke a logjam to pass not only welfare reform but also an increase in the minimum wage and a bill making health insurance more portable as workers move between jobs. Voters rewarded him and his colleagues with the Senate's highest approval ratings in a decade and with a Republican gain of two seats in the November elections...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Congressional negotiators reached a compromise agreement Thursday on the line-item veto measure, ending a yearlong impasse. With the Republican nomination nearly wrapped up, Sen. Dole interevened to break the logjam and convince Senate negotiators to adopt the House version of the bill. "There is a great urgency on the part of Dole to get things done," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "This is an item from the 'Contract with America' and it is very important for him to get it passed by the Senate and sent to the President." Republican Congressmen are more accepting of the measure...