Word: standoff
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...government money. Since 1969 the U.S. has used a variety of methods to protect its industry from imports of inexpensive foreign steel. The result is a standoff that hurts both sides. Hooked on government funds, most European steel companies are weak, inefficient and a drain on their national treasuries. The U.S. Commerce Department has found that government help to some European steelmakers now totals as much as 40% of the value of their products...
...quality of arms for the insurgents fighting the 105,000-man Soviet force. In December, the officials said, the Central Intelligence Agency began providing the rebels with bazookas, mortars, mines and recoilless rifles. Since then the Soviets have stepped up their military activity. The result has been a standoff, with more casualties for both sides...
...performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed his musicians that henceforth he would fulfill only his contractual obligations (half a dozen or so performances a year) and would cease doing most of the concert tours and recording sessions that provide the orchestra members with the bulk of their incomes. The standoff has Berliners contemplating the very real possibility of an end to 44 years of beautiful music from the maestro and the philharmonic...
...President's dealings with the 98th Congress could take one of three paths: forging a coalition with conservative Democrats, negotiating a true bipartisan consensus, or settling for a standoff. The first would by pass the congressional leader ship by working with Boll Weevil Democratic defectors, much as Reagan did to pass the budget and tax cuts in the past. White House Chief of Staff James Baker claims that despite last week's defeats, the President still has a pool of 245 sympathetic Congress men to draw upon to reach a 218-vote majority...
...performed an uncharacteristic double swerve: after ruminating two weeks before the election about "a landslide that may never land," he trumpeted six days before the voting that Democrats were "in striking range of control of the Senate." He then backed off four days later and guessed, correctly, that a standoff was the probable Senate result. As a group the commentators were like generals fighting the previous war. Having been surprised by the conservative landslide in 1980, the sages were primed to find the electorate speaking decisively once again. They turned ripples into tidal waves...