Word: logjammed
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...there may be a way out of the logjam created by the Senate's refusal to accept the President's domestic proposals and Reagan's unwillingness to raise taxes or silence Cap Weinberger's endless pleas for more funds. Experts estimate that the various versions of a tax reform bill which closes loopholes in the current system could bring in as much as a $100 billion, half the current deficit, without increasing tax rates. The tax bills-Bradley/Gephardt for the Democrats, Kemp/Kasten for the Republicans, and the Treasury's as yet unapproved one for the Administration-have added attractiveness...
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...