Word: logjam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...betraying anxiety that the most ambitious overhaul of international-trade rules since World War II is floundering. In Brussels, European Community officials denounce the hard-nosed obstinacy of their American counterparts. In Washington, George Bush struggles to convey optimism, dropping vague references to "new ideas" that might break the logjam between Washington and the E.C. In Tokyo, ministers try quietly to bridge the gap between Europe and the U.S., lest there be any interruption of the trade machine upon which Japan's now imperiled prosperity depends...
...logjam both on the mound and behind the plate has kept other positions up in the air. Once the coaches decide on a few primary pitchers and catchers, the other positions could fall into place...
...last year, a chance conversation between Fancher and reporters about the moral leadership role of a newspaper prompted him to authorize one last try. Three veteran reporters -- Pulitzer prizewinner Eric Nalder, 46, and Susan Gilmore and Eric Pryne, both 41 -- were told to reexamine their leads. To break the logjam, editors decided that signed statements from the accusers would serve as a compromise between the identification the paper wanted and the anonymity the accusers sought. A week before the story went to press, Fancher says, "we looked at what we had and said...
...fifth round of talks last week, Yon's spirits took a sudden upturn when his South Korean host and counterpart, Chung Won Shik, dropped an unexpected secret: removal of the last American nuclear weapon on Korean soil was complete. That announcement, long sought by Pyongyang, broke the negotiating logjam. Twenty hours later, following an all- night session, the two sides announced agreement on a nonaggression accord that in effect ended their 41-year-old state of war. Said Chung at the signing ceremony Friday morning: "Today the tide of reconciliation and cooperation flowing worldwide has reached this land...
...break that logjam, two scholars last week issued the first of several unauthorized volumes of the secret scrolls -- cleverly using a computer- generated text. The editors are Professor Ben Zion Wacholder of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Martin G. Abegg Jr., one of his doctoral students. They began with a concordance to the scrolls -- an index that lists each word -- prepared under the auspices of the official team in the 1950s but not made available until 1988. As with a Bible concordance, each word was annotated according to its context and location. A desktop computer was used to piece...