Word: gridlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the thousands who had abandoned their Communist home land for the West in recent weeks, most people crossing on the weekend were just visiting, taking advantage of the freedom created by Thursday's opening of East Germany's borders. By last night, the border gridlock had eased, and West Berlin's streets were returning to normal...
...most made it to work without major problem, despite predictions of commuter gridlock on the first full workday since the earthquake closed crucial freeways and broke a section of the vital Bay Bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland...
Meanwhile rescue workers euphoric over finding a survivor in a collapsed freeway resumed work at a frustratingly cautious pace yesterday, and earthquake-shaken Northern Californians mapped strategy for today's commute through gridlock...
Ironically, the best depiction to date of the nation's gridlock may have come last summer from a ranking member of the Bush Administration: Budget Director Richard Darman. In a speech at the National Press Club, Darman blasted both the Government and the voters for mimicking spoiled children with demands of "now-nowism -- our collective shortsightedness, our obsession with the here and now, our reluctance adequately to address the future . . . Many think of ((the deficit)) as a cause of our problems. But it is also a symptom, a kind of silent now-now scream...
...senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is still well below the level that existed before Reagan fired striking air controllers in 1981 and is using outmoded equipment to track near gridlock in the skies...