Word: logjams
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...Nixon tactic. The bill whipped through the House, and on its way picked up provisions that would also have set quotas on shoes and many other products-thus inviting retaliation not only from Japan but from Europe as well. The highly protectionist bill was lost in a Senate logjam at the end of the last session...
...capital punishment. One compelling argument was that it would cost Arkansas an estimated $1,500,000 to attempt to execute all 15 men, considering the many appeals that would have been argued. Because no one has been executed in the U.S. in more than three years, says Amsterdam, "the logjam of those on death row is now so severe that even Governors with a so-called law-and-order attitude may find it in the interest of their states to commute. The funds thus released would buy a bonanza in more effective law enforcement." After Arkansas' innovation, the nation...
Sweating Them. Intensive but apparently unproductive conferences between Senators, presidential aides and lobbyists were under way all week in an effort to break the logjam. The mood was not always one of cooperation. A State Department official called a top-ranking Democratic leadership aide one night to find out if an important measure was about to come up for a vote. The aide, who knew the vote had been put off, refused to take the call. "We're sweating them," he said...
...opening period, a mere 21 seconds after Cavanagh had put the Crimson ahead 3-0. Princeton's Jim Tittemore dashed into a logjam in front of the Crimson net, where three Harvard players and a flock of Tigers were kicking and flailing at the puck, and poked it past Harvard goal?ender, Bruce Durno to put Princeton on the scoreboard...
After only five minutes had elapsed, Terrier Bob Gryp received a direct centering pass from the midst of a logjam in front of the Harvard net, and rifled a clean wrist shot past Crimson goaler Bruce Durno. At 9:32, Steve Stirling put in another from the right faceoff circle, and it seemed that Harvard was in for a dismal evening...