Word: logjammed
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...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...
...unusual move, Spence appointed theEnglish Department's committee as a permanent bodyto help break a hiring logjam that had stagnatedthe department's tenure process in recent years.But Ruttenberg said the committee had not improvedthe lot of junior members of the department...
Nothing in last week's diplomacy suggested a way out of the substantive stalemate: how to bring both Israel and the Palestinians to the bargaining table. No one believes Moscow can single-handedly make peace. Any hope of overcoming that logjam still requires American influence. "The Arabs and the Soviets know that until the United States joins the game, there is no game," says a U.S. Administration official. Then perhaps Moscow's aggressiveness will spur the idling Bush Administration...
...federal law prohibiting a mandatory retirement age is slated to take effect at universities around the country then, and many higher education experts say they fear that one result will be a logjam in hiring at schools such as Harvard...
While the logjam over the missile situation appears to be breaking, Baker's biggest problem is Gorbachev and the inroads he has made in Western European public opinion, a U.S. official said...