Word: logjammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats and their labor allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...nine-year logjam on the minimum wage is finally broken," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), a key architect of the compromise. "The working poor are about to receive an increase, although it is not as much as they deserve...
...shatter their movement and, with it, all hope of freedom and reform in Communist Poland. Last week Walesa found himself at the center of a very different situation. His forces had just whipped the Communist Party in the country's first truly democratic elections since 1947, causing a constitutional logjam that for the moment left unclear exactly how and by whom Poland would be governed. Walesa, 46, his trademark mustache now gray and his stocky build padded with extra poundage, warned supporters shortly after the vote, "It's too early for congratulations...
From the Baltic to the China Sea, people strain against the confines of the system, demanding a fair share in their own governance. -- Hard-liners take China's helm, but the old compact between the people and their leaders is shattered. -- Solidarity whips the Communist Party, causing a constitutional logjam. -- Wherever he turns, Gorbachev faces hard lessons and unhappy citizens...
...million died. The smallest number I got from anybody was 60 million. There were travel accounts of people who were in the Congo -- that's a wide river -- saying, "We could not get the boat through the river, it was choked with bodies." That's like a logjam. A lot of people died. Half of them died in those ships...