Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze meet in Washington this week, their main objective will be to clear the way for a get-together later this year between their bosses, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The principal task for Sherpas and summiteers alike is to end an eight-year deadlock on arms control by concluding a treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces. Under the so-called global zero option, the Soviets would have to do away with an entire class of modern, mobile multiple-warhead missiles, the SS-20s, which have threatened America's Asian and European allies for nearly...
After that ego-deflating lunch, the tumult of the convention was a relief. As Madison took his front-row seat with the Virginia delegation, a page handed him a hastily scrawled note from Roger Sherman of Connecticut: "We need to talk." This could be the break in the deadlock that Madison was hoping for; Sherman was the last of the old-time New England bosses. But getting through the clogged aisles to the Connecticut delegation on the other side of Independence Hall was a nightmare. A live-TV crew dogged Madison's every step as Reporter Don Samuelson shouted questions...
...establish a metric board to help manage the anticipated rush to conversion. From the start, the board had a built-in problem: in the interest of fairness, it was set up to reflect opposing points of view. But as a result, its deliberations repeatedly ended in deadlock. "Lining up for the metric system were the multinational corporations, the scientific community and educators," recalls Underwood. "Opposed were a great many consumers, who saw it as placing undue stress on them: Why confuse a lot of people just for the sake of having the same system the Europeans use? The labor unions...
...flaws. So argues Donald L. Robinson, professor of government at Smith College, in this probing study of the presidency and the Constitution. In Robinson's view, Congress has yielded the President some of its power to define policies but has impeded his efforts to execute them. The result: chronic deadlock. A Government thus divided against itself, he writes, cannot stand up to such challenges as trillion-dollar debt and explosive foreign entanglements. His proposed remedies go beyond familiar ideas like repeal of the Constitution's prohibition against members of Congress serving in the Cabinet to far-out notions like...
Presidents have still managed to push many wide-ranging programs through Congress. But the regular spectacle of legislative deadlock has given life to a venerable critique of American Government that favors some of the mechanisms and party discipline of parliamentary rule. Under such a system, the winning party's leader becomes Prime Minister and thus almost always commands a majority in Parliament to support his programs. Recently a five-year-old citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas...