Word: deadlocked
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...Made together, these efforts could break the deadlock?and produce other lasting benefits. Managing the North Korean challenge could usher in a new era of security cooperation in North Asia and allow China and Japan to resolve age-old differences and begin dealing with each other with a measure of trust. It's time for these two giants to transcend their discord and instead focus on the long-term stability of their region. When elephants fight, no one wins...
...deadlock in the nightcap was suspended in the eighth inning due to a steady downpour, with Brown runners on first and second...
...deadlock lingered into last week, when lawmakers returned to hot, muggy Washington after a ten-day Fourth of July break. "We're pretty much split down the middle," House Minority Leader Robert Michel said of the impasse. By then Reagan was ready to get back into the fray. Last Tuesday evening he held a reception for congressional leaders of both parties under the oak tree in the Rose Garden. It was at this "Oak Tree meeting" that the President surprised his guests by simply backing down on Social Security, agreeing to dispense with the COLA freeze...
...most pressing item on the President's agenda was the deadlock over the budget. Since midwinter, the Senate and the House have been unable to agree on a deficit-reducing budget resolution, wrangling most ferociously over defense spending and entitlement programs, particularly Social Security. Reagan has skirmished with both houses while trying to get them to compromise on a plan acceptable to him. Dressed in pajamas and a bathrobe, the President expressed his frustration to congressional leaders at a White House meeting last week. "How can the country go forward without a sound economic plan?" he asked. Reagan exhorted...
...head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, becomes the first Kurdish president of an Arab-dominated country; Yawar is a tribal leader of the Sunni Muslim minority. The announcements, along with the naming of Shi'ite politician Ibrahim Jaafari, 58, as Prime Minister, followed nine weeks of deadlock in Iraq's parliament since the country's landmark elections...