Word: chokehold
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...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...
Ronald Reagan has presided over neither the democratization of the region nor the disintegration of the Communists -- no winners, only losers. The new Administration must find a better policy. -- The military tightens its chokehold in Burma, even as it promises reforms and elections. -- For the first time in eleven years, all of Pakistan' s parties are taking part in a national political campaign...
...People are becoming tired of the chokehold liberals and leftism have had on this campus," Kashani asserts...
...Since 1975, the Los Angeles Police Department has killed 16 people using its famous chokehold. A suit asking that the deadly grip only be used under guidelines went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled 5 to 4 last May that the plaintiff. Adolph Lyons, who was nearly killed by the chokehold, had no right even asking for injunctions against the grip...
...power of the Buffalo Mafia. It is unfinished, one year behind schedule and at least two months from completion; the contractor's losses have mounted to $500,000 while 30 Government agencies wait to move in. Reason for the delays: the Mob in Buffalo has a chokehold on Local 210 of the International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers' Union of America and, as a result, on the construction of any major building in the city. Past investigations of Local 210 have revealed that union officials held stock in a concrete company that contracted with builders in Buffalo...