Word: stalls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lord Home! Even an average housewife, with an average husband, average children, and living in an average neighborhood, cannot help but recognize that one cannot banish evil by refusing to know it's there. Keeping Red China out of the U.N. only tends to increase their resentment and stall any progress toward disarmament...
...Britain get in on the discussions without committing itself? Adenauer outlined to Macmillan a solution of the kind so beloved by diplomats: Why not get the British into the European conversations through the existing but moribund seven-nation Western Europe Union? It was plainly a stall. Sooner or later Britain must make the decision itself: inside Europe...
...Rules Committee, had made up an unsplittable conservative bloc with the committee's four Republican members plus Mississippi's William Colmer. Because most major bills require positive action by the Rules Committee, the six conservatives were able to use a 6-to-6 deadlock to stall any legislation they disliked. By adding two new Democrats and only one Republican, Sam Rayburn expected to tilt the 6-to-6 standoff to an 8-to-7 majority. So much was at issue in the shift that the fortnight before the showdown saw the House's fiercest struggle for votes...
...roads, rarely traveled. Any Congressman can drag a bill out of the Rules Committee if he can get a majority of the entire membership of the House to sign a "discharge petition," but many members disapprove of this approach, refuse to sign a petition even when they favor the stalled bill. During the half-century that the House has had some kind of discharge procedure, only two measures-the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and last year's pay raise for federal employees-have ever been enacted into law after being forced out of a balky Rules Committee...
...stay out of labor disputes unless a national crisis was at hand. (One crisis: the 116-day steel strike of 1959-60, when Vice President Nixon pressured behind the scenes for a settlement.) To interfere in lesser cases, Ike believed, can weaken collective bargaining by tempting either side to stall in hope of getting a better deal through Government intervention-as during the Truman era, when labor made many breakthroughs at the cost of higher prices...