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...Testament refer to as "ebullitions of wrath." Some of Bobby's ebullitions have been on display in television news clips the last couple of days: Coach Knight hurling a molded plastic chair the length of a basketball court; Coach Knight, displeased, putting a straight-arm Darth Vader chokehold on one of his own players. The papers have also showed shots of Coach Knight flourishing a bullwhip during a team practice, leading me to think that at least some of his ebullitions are satirical...
...avoided, there must be dialogue between the two sides. But talks will not be between two one-party systems, as it had been decades before. The recent election has ended the dominance of the Nationalist Party in Taiwan, which now fosters political pluralism, in stark contrast to the chokehold of the Chinese Communist Party on the mainland. If there are any residual notions of unbreakable cultural and historical ties between the two nemeses, Taiwan can very well serve as an example of the possibilities beyond autocratic regimes for communist China...
...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...