Word: logjams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of an international peace conference to break the diplomatic logjam that has plagued the Middle East for years almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply...
Just kidding. The new dean doesn't really have a mandate to let your psyche run free in the soft wind of the subconscious. His or her job will be to alleviate the logjam in the University's libraries. In many of Harvard's libraries, the space situation is so bad that there isn't enough shelf space to hold all the books in the system. Compiled by JONATHAN M. MOSES
...SOVIET-AMERICAN relations are once again back on track. "A bleak logjam suddenly broken, Soviet-American relations now flow with promise," The New York Times editorialized. Salvation is now at hand, if only we believe...
...thousands of alumni and dignitaries convened for the University's 350th celebration two weeks ago, Harvard's in-house policemen's union embarked on a publicity campaign in an effort to break the logjam that has stalled their seven-month-old contract negotiations...
...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...