Word: logjams
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...years after the first documents were discovered, one-fifth or more of the scrolls are still unpublished and unavailable to academe. His five colleagues on the scrolls team cited the delays as a reason to remove Strugnell, but other experts contend that he has worked to end the logjam...
...utilized three Dean Durkin field goals to take an 11-6 decision from the undefeated Cornell Big Red. Then the shocker, a late touchdown gave Brown a 24-17 decision over also-undefeated Penn in Providence. And finally, the expected Yale blowout over Columbia, 31-7, produced the logjam at the top of the league standings. Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale all lie at 2-1 with four games remaining to be played...
...than 20,000 political exiles. Both sides have now met most of the conditions each had demanded before formal negotiations over a new constitution could begin. Challenged by militant followers who thought Mandela gave away too much for too little, A.N.C. officials said they felt compelled to break the logjam so that discussions could move on to more important issues...
...after dropping out of college, he joined ONRC in the effort to silence chain saws. In 1981 the young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative Bob Smith, among others. Yet by raising his profile and drawing national attention to the issue, the politicians unwittingly played into Kerr...
...last week, under the weight of collapsing hopes and a faltering economy, public approval of the D.L.P. had dropped to 14%. The new political alignment had not cleared the legislative logjam. It seemed to many Koreans that their new leaders were more interested in squabbling over the division of personal power than in dealing with the urgent issues: an economic growth rate that fell 50% last year, a sudden trade deficit, rising rents and widespread strikes...