Word: roadblocking
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...envisaged by Washington. In return, the U.S. agreed in principle to make drastic cuts in the highest tariff categories. Since the fine print will not actually be negotiated until May 1964, some U.S. and British officials were fearful, as one put it. that "France has only moved her roadblock down the road...
...ecumenicism has to come, Southern Presbyterian conservatives prefer a face-saving union with the Reformed Church in America, a smaller, 230,210-member body concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. Yet Moderator McCorkle is not an unyielding roadblock to unity: "Eventually I think we will get together and all of the Presbyterian families will...
...that the hostile Congressman might win the primary anyway-and then, his party split, go on to lose to a Republican in November. This prospect does not bother the Administration one bit. To get rid of a Southern Congressman who, by reason of seniority, has stood as a formidable roadblock to Kennedy programs, the Administration is willing to risk a Republican taking over-at least for a couple of years, after which the Administration would hope to win the place back with a Democrat more in its own image...
Promises & Threats. The Tories still faced a long, hazardous haul. Politically and economically, the biggest roadblock is that industry will not be able to expand and compete in world markets without vigorous, unpopular measures to hold wage boosts to half their rate of increase over the past decade. On the bright side, economists now believe that, by fall, Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling's canny budget (TIME, April 12) will have boosted production, whittled unemployment and put extra spending money in lower-income pockets. In fact, many Tory M.P.s now fear that if the government waits until next...
...field packs over their black peasant garb. "We were ordered out of the car," said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but we weren't frightened. We thought we would be on our way in a few minutes." This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong...