Word: logjam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several security guards said the radio logjam might hurt their ability to respond in the case of an emergency. One guard, who requested anonymity, said there would be a delay of a "few seconds" in getting the escort service off the radio but that such a delay "might be the difference...
Finally, the world has stopped gaping and started acting to end the holocaust occurring in Somalia. The announcement that the United States is offering up to 30,000 troops to aid Somali relief efforts is a sign that the logjam of inaction and incompetence may finally be breaking. This is something we should be thankful...
...bird's answer is unrecorded. But on Thursday, the man who had been / written off as "the yellow Ross of Texas" -- billionaire businessman Ross Perot -- ruffled a few feathers of his own by dramatically re-entering the race he quit on July 16. The next day, the logjam over debates burst as negotiators for the Bush and Clinton camps announced that three presidential face-offs and one vice-presidential meeting would take place between Sunday, Oct. 11, and Monday...
...this time, and a simple threat to leave was all that was needed to break the logjam. A bully respects a bully. In her book, Hepburn speaks candidly of being "totally selfish," "a me, me, me person." To Ludlow Ogden Smith, her husband of six years whose only mistake was that he loved her, she admits to being an "absolute pig." He tried everything to please her, went so far as to change his name so that she wouldn't be known as Kate Smith. "Isn't that the way it is?" She shrugs. "Luddy loved me and would...
...used illegally. The city's new police chief, Nicholas Pastore, claims that crime actually dropped 20% over the past two years, perhaps because of the improved relationship between city workers and the community. Meanwhile, referrals to drug-treatment centers increased. These results have enabled policymakers elsewhere to break the logjam. Says New York City's health commissioner Margaret Hamburg: "It all came together in the New Haven experiment...