Word: chokehold
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...down over an agreement that would dismantle North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for a range of economic and political incentives. Since then, North Korea has continued to press for direct talks with the Bush Administration, which Washington has refused. And the U.S. has been quietly applying a chokehold to the regime's finances by clamping down on its money-laundering activities in the banks of the Chinese island of Macau...
...When Ozawa's Liberal Party joined forces with the DPJ in 2003, many believed that Japan's opposition had finally gained the critical mass it needed to challenge the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has had a chokehold on power for nearly half a century. Commentators boldly predicted that true two-party politics had finally arrived in Japan. They were wrong. The DPJ has not yet proven to be a political equal of the LDP. It has consistently missed opportunities, failed to define a coherent message, staked its reputation on trivial issues and repeatedly imploded amid avoidable public embarrassments. Seiji...
...this day, the Harvard field hockey team defeated Columbia, 2-0, and grabbed a share of the Ivy League title, ending Princeton’s 10-year chokehold on the crown...
...meanwhile, shattered Princeton’s chokehold over the conference and arguably the entire Ivy League yesterday by beating The Tigers 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader to clinch its spot...
...Bush’s latest budget. With this 7 percent rise, which doesn’t include any supplemental money for Iraq or Afghanistan, military spending in 2005 will surpass the largest defense budgets of the Cold War. And, regrettably, it will almost certainly pass because of a Republican chokehold on the House of Representatives and Senate Democrats’ insecurities about seeming weak on defense. If it has to pass, let’s use the new money wisely—by siphoning it into higher salaries and renovated facilities for American soldiers, not buying more spy planes...