Word: standoff
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GAME theoreticians model situations such as the current standoff in the Gulf in the form of a game called "Chicken." Just as hot-rodding teenagers may scream their souped-up cars toward each other in an adolescent test of wills, each hoping that the other will swerve off the road, so can national leaders threaten each other with mutual destruction in order to persuade the adversary to give...
...would be for Jordan, a continuation of the present standoff would be only slightly less disastrous. Already burdened with the cost of absorbing 150,000 Jordanians who were expelled from Kuwait and Iraq, the country is facing a fiscal crisis of calamitous proportions. According to government figures, the United Nations-ordered embargo of Iraq, where 70% of Jordan's exports go, could cost up to $4 billion in lost revenues this year. Tourists, who brought in more than $500 million last year, have virtually disappeared. The sanctions have idled the once thriving port of Aqaba, and shipments of fruits...
...however, the gulf crisis has been a standoff not only between Saddam and the legions arrayed against him but also between two sides of the political personality of the President...
...Crimson (3-3-1 Overall) earned considerable respect in its standoff against the 18th-ranked Terriers...
...Senate is perfectly entitled to turn down a Bork, a Souter, or any other appointee who fails, in its estimation, to sufficiently uphold these political ends--regardless of the appointee's scholarly qualifications. If it came to a standoff between the Senate and the President, the voters would eventually be called upon to break the dead-lock by voting one or the other out of office--the surest guarantee that the Supreme Court will reflect the political values of the citizenry...