No agreement was reached by the deadline, and even after a budget is enacted, the standoff could prove merely a prelude to a bigger impasse over the debt ceiling.
In Spain's three mainly Basque provinces, a tenth of the voters plumped for the pro-ETA party in the latest regional election, in May.But another big reason for the impasse is that Mr Aznar has himself been obtuse, by unwisely alienating the majority of Basques who do not back ETA.
Big companies are being an impasse to innovation.
Bond investors demanded sharply higher interest rates on short-term government debt during the debt ceiling impasse, with some big investors saying they expect a premium in the future to compensate for the risk of new default threats.
MOSCOW — Iran's president announced an expansion of the country's uranium production and claimed other atomic energy advances on Tuesday, striking a pugnacious tone in the aftermath of diplomatic talks that ended in an impasse with the big powers last weekend in Kazakhstan.
For people outside the United States, though, the biggest damage from the political impasse in Washington may be to their morale.
With one son locked up, another heading the same way and a drunken husband with whom she long ago fell out of love — if she ever loved him at all — Kathleen Moran is fighting a losing battle against a historical impasse that seems bigger even than her God.
Investors might rush even faster into safer German bonds if these less frugal countries were to loosen the budgetary reins instead.One way out of this impasse would be a big co-ordinated stimulus, which the European Commission will propose next week.
WASHINGTON — The economy could relapse into a recession if President Obama and Congress remain at an impasse and allow several big tax increases and spending cuts to take effect at the start of 2013, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Tuesday.
KERRY URGES A SETTLEMENT Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, stepped into the impasse between the N.F.L. and big cable operators over the NFL Network yesterday.
