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The classified orders signal a watershed for the Bush administration after nearly seven years of trying to work with Pakistan to combat the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and after months of high-level stalemate about how to challenge the militants' increasingly secure base in Pakistan's tribal areas.

"The story for Japan is lamentable," says Neilson; he criticizes the weak government, which is in a stalemate about how to reform the economy.

He seems to have been unwilling to accept that a stalemate was about as good an outcome as was available, at least until we learned new tactics and goals that we are only now coming to appreciate.

It was thought that a stalemate would come about in the summer of 1965 and demonstrate to our adversaries that the Vietcong could never hope to achieve a military victory.

Now the stalemate is about to get more complex.

By early 1951 the war became a fierce stalemate at about the 38th parallel where it had begun.

After a five-month stalemate, he needed about five days to lay the groundwork for an agreement.

Business leaders who have long called for an end to the budget stalemate expressed optimism about the latest news.

While the stalemate is technically about summer school, it is seen by many as a prelude to the larger struggle over the issue of merit pay in the year-round teachers' contract, which expires in November.

Italy cannot afford more years of political stalemate and economic stagnation brought about by Mr. Berlusconi's shameless opportunism.

Clinton had a lot to learn in a hurry: about managing (and allowing himself to be managed by) the White House staff; about the hostility of the press corps and the snobbery of the Washington establishment; about the ideological stalemate in Congress; and, not least, about U.S. leadership in a shifting, often perplexing, post-Cold War world.