Word: logjammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That turn of events caused a logjam in the fight for fourth place, where four teams (Penn, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia) are currently tied...
These pressures combined to produce a summit that broke the logjam on Britain's demands. The compromise that was worked out was a diplomatic sleight of hand that saved face for both British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand, who had taken personal charge of the effort to end the deadlock. Said a French spokesman: "There are no victors or vanquished." While other difficulties still remain, Mitterrand, the host of the summit, who was wrapping up his six-month term as Community president, was confident enough to proclaim: "The way has been cleared...
...protected by the wilderness preserves. Last week the combatants announced a compromise that clears the way for about 10 million acres of forests to be declared official wilderness and frees another 10 million acres for development. Exulted Peter Coppelman, national forest expert with the Wilderness Society: "We broke the logjam, and a lot of logs are going to come through...
...rush has created a logjam at the FCC and griping among the non-Bell newcomers, who see the old Bell companies as getting a head start in mobile service. Says Albert Grimes, vice president of American TeleServices, a company in the Baltimore-Washington market: "The industry was moving at 100 m.p.h. and ran into an agency that was moving...
There were signs last week that the logjam at the top had finally begun to break. Soviet officials hinted to members of the French delegation that Gorbachev who is responsible for agriculture, had emerged from the Central Committee session as the No. 2 man in the leadership and that he might soon be given "a high rank in the state bureaucracy." If Andropov had been grooming Gorbachev to succeed him, as had been widely thought, Gorbachev was apparently shrewd enough not to press his claims now. In a move that could be significant, he gave the closing address...