Word: standoff
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...scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after six weeks. The B.C. P. withdrew east across the Salween River to the primitive Wa States, where they regrouped their forces...
Since the miners first refused to work overtime last November, the stakes in the government-labor standoff have gradually risen on both sides. For Heath, determined to preserve his anti-inflationary wage guidelines against the miners' demands for what the government claims is a 30% pay boost, it has meant a series of unpopular emergency measures, including a compulsory three-day work week, power cuts, rising unemployment and an economic slowdown. For the miners it has meant an unhappy choice between giving in to the government or digging in for a long, crippling siege that will bring irreparable wage...
...homes-only it happens that Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel, 53, is occupying the 54-room Governor's mansion in Annapolis while Marvin has taken refuge in a five-room bachelor pad two miles away. Mandel was once considered a shoo-in for re-election in 1974; if his marital standoff continues, he may face stiff competition from politicians who are living-however uneasily-with their wives...
...rest of the first quarter was a scoreless standoff. Then Harvard exploded for 29 points in the second quarter and knocked all the fight out of the badly mauled Lions. The only inducement for the 25,000 Employee Day fans to watch the rest of the game was to see if Harvard could break the scoring record set by Cornell in 1964 against an earlier version of the Columbia football team...
...Crimson's amazing scoring drought was extended to a mind-boggling 190 minutes on Wednesday after a poorly-played 0-0 standoff at Williams, and if somebody doesn't start putting the ball into the net soon Harvard may find itself sliding past the Lions into the Ivy basement...