Word: standoff
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...Washington, reaction to the summit was muted. The State Department is anxious not to devalue Saudi influence in the Arab world; Washington has cultivated it, values it and needs it, particularly in helping to solve such delicate problems as the standoff in Lebanon, where Syria still maintains ground-to-air missiles that Israel has vowed to attack if they are not removed. Nonetheless, the U.S. is not unhappy to see the Saudi peace plan disappear, at least for a while, since it has added complications to already tense U.S.-Israeli relations and to dealings between the U.S. and Europe, which...
...spendthrift Government. His opponents-this time including not only most of the Democrats but some of the congressional Republicans-sought to escape being labeled "budget busters" though still appearing to defend their constituents against cuts that would hurt the poor and disadvantaged. The outcome looked like a standoff. By the weekend Reagan's phenomenal streak of congressional victories had been broken, and he was prepared to settle for spending cuts well below those he had demanded two months ago. On the other hand, by brandishing his veto power, the President still was about to force larger reductions in social...
Since that is what Islamic fundamentalists do, Among the Believers reads like a long-drawn-out standoff. Naipaul's report is indeed filled with fascinating details. He carefully questions his subjects about their pasts and often evokes poignant sketches of uprooted lives leading to inchoate yearnings. His prose evokes obscure places that few will ever see: a mountain pass in the shadow of the Himalayas, where Afghan nomads drive and tend then-flocks; a small village in central Java, "an enchanted, complete world...
...remainder of the game was a standoff until Granese converted her second tally of the dav to give Springfield...
...When the standoff began in downtown Warsaw, anger started to surge in the crowd. Shouted one militant through a loudspeaker: "We face the threat of bloodshed on the streets." But then, as thousands of workers, housewives, students and children gathered to cheer on the demonstrators, the scene changed unpredictably and took on a carnival-like atmosphere, resembling a California "happening" of the 1960s more than a dangerous political confrontation in one of the Communist world's major capitals...