More worrisome than the temporary election impasse (front page, Nov. 14) are the personal attacks, half-truths, mutual suspicion, negative ads, pettiness and pandering to voters' self-interest that characterized to different degrees both the Bush and Gore campaigns in recent months.
Under increasing pressure, Time Warner restored the signals of ABC television stations to 3.5 million homes yesterday afternoon after agreeing to a temporary truce in its contractual impasse with the Walt Disney Company.
But any efforts to do so are likely to make it more difficult to reach agreement with the Senate and White House, increasing chances for a series of temporary stopgap spending bills or an impasse that could lead to a government shutdown.
Mr. Reid told reporters, "My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward".
Such an extended impasse is rare in the U.S. and may prove temporary. .
To abandon this conceptual objective for any temporary, subjective, personal convenience is a formula for a general regulatory impasse.... [T]he BPA episode has revealed the general inexperience of many in the experimental scientific community to the intricacies of risk assessment and the necessity of employing risk management judgments in any comprehensive determination of human safety.
In Pennsylvania, which faces a $3.2 billion deficit, the legislature remained locked in a partisan impasse over Gov. Edward G. Rendell's proposal for a temporary income tax increase.
House Democrats went so far as to allow a temporary surveillance measure to expire in February, leading to a five-month impasse and prompting accusations from Mr. Bush that the nation's defenses against another strike by Al Qaeda had been weakened.
In other words, this isn't really about the state having or not having the money in its coffers to pay workers; instead, the state's budget impasse and the resultant opening it gives the governor to impose temporary pay cuts on state workers are being used tactically, to fashion a battering ram with which to bludgeon contract concessions out of trade unions.
Given that the public conceptualization of nuclear waste underlies the political impasse that in effect perpetuates the storage of radioactive waste under temporary arrangements and threatens the viability as well as future of a significant energy source, it may be instructive to inquire into it more closely.
