Word: chokehold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lending industry could not succeed in maintaining its chokehold on taxpayer-financed profits without well-placed friends in Congress and the Seante. Of course, they found willing accomplices in the Republican party. Representative Bill Goodling (R-Penn.) and Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kansas) were more than willing to trumpet the innuendos against direct student lending...
...road to reconciliation had to overcome dark disillusion among Arabs and Israelis alike. After the euphoria following the 1993 agreement, the peace process seemed mired in blood as Palestinian terrorists tested Israel's patience and Israelis cracked down with chokehold security arrangements over the Palestinians' newly autonomous enclaves of Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Yet two nearly uninterrupted months of living and working in the same hotel enabled more than 100 negotiators from each side not only to bridge these differences but also to develop a grudging respect, even affection, for one another. The encyclopedic document that resulted takes...
...were the first [record] store here," Matros says. "[Since then] the competition has just piled up: Tower, HMV, Newbury. It's put a chokehold...
...absorbing information," says Dr. Robert Liberman, head of UCLA's Clinical Research Center, who presides over all of the school's schizophrenia projects, including those under scrutiny at the VA in West Los Angeles. He contends that reforms that demand clear and more detailed risk information will create a chokehold of paperwork. Liberman argues that patients can be informed of risks in conversation, without resorting to intricate documents. Critics reply, however, that verbal consent protects no one save the researcher. And while mentally ill patients may not fully understand consent forms, full disclosure in writing can at least be comprehended...