Word: logjammed
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...chance points. “[Rebounding] is probably the biggest thing we really need to work on,” Cusworth said. “That is something that can really hurt us.” The game with the Terriers could help clear up Harvard’s logjam at the three and four spots. At power forward, four players saw action against Maine, with junior Brad Unger and sophomore Evan Harris on the court the most. At the three guard position, freshman Jeremy Lin played well in his first collegiate game, grabbing six rebounds to go with...
...Mike Pence, R-Ind., has anything to say about it. The three-term Congressman has become a major player in this debate by devising a commonsense compromise that, Pence believes, still has a chance to break the legislative logjam between competing House and Senate bills...
...Backed into a political corner, Thaksin tried to put a positive spin Monday on the poll results, claiming a victory despite the mounting pile of spoiled and ?No Vote? ballots. But his bravado didn?t last long, particularly since he also faces a constitutional logjam over invalid races for 39 parliamentary seats that must be run again on April 23. As rumors swirled of his likely successors, Thaksin flew Tuesday afternoon to meet revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej at his seaside palace before making his brief farewell address. In it, he referred to the auspicious 60th anniversary of the king...
Sharon's policy was arrogant, perversely brilliant. It shattered the old Middle East paradigm, leaping past the old negotiate-or-not logjam. It allowed for a Palestinian state, but absent a reliable negotiating partner, Israel would decide what that state would look like. Suddenly Sharon had positioned himself to the left, and also to the right, of the traditional Israeli parties. "It was a perfect reflection of the country's mood," says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "After 40 years of occupying the territories, people are sick and tired of it. They don't want...
...little breathing space. In order for their industries to remain competitive with China's, central bankers throughout the region have been trying to keep their currencies from appreciating against the dollar?an increasingly difficult challenge as their economies strengthened. Yuan reform could remove the first log from the logjam?the Japanese yen, Korean won and Thai baht all rose against the greenback immediately after China revalued. And within an hour of Beijing's announcement, Malaysia ended its 7-year-old peg of the ringgit to the dollar, which was imposed during Asia's financial crisis to help stabilize the faltering...