Word: clamp
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...same time, Saddam showed that he was as ready as ever to clamp down hard on his restive populace. He fired his Interior Minister and replaced him with a cousin, Ali Hassan Majid, who not only served as the governor of occupied Kuwait during Iraq's rape of the country but also allegedly supervised the gassing of rebellious Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000. Baghdad also expelled all foreign journalists from the country, perhaps to eliminate witnesses to a coming bloodbath. Opposition leaders were terrified that Saddam would use chemical weapons against his own people once again...
Harvard also must clamp down on defense. Fortunately for the Crimson, much of Cornell's fire-power departed last spring; the Big Red's top five scorers last year, including all-Ivy midfielder Vince Angotti, all graduated. This year, Cornell is led by senior attacker John Snow and sophomore sensation John Busse, who netted four goals against Army...
...defense was able to clamp down during the rest of the game, forcing Post to work the ball more around the offensive zone. But Post's early lead forced Harvard to play catchup, and offensively, Harvard struggled even more...
Among all the efforts to clamp state censorship on art in the 20th century, one symbolic event stands out. It is "Entartete Kunst," the Nazis' show of "degenerate art," the purpose of which was to ridicule Modernism. Even when Stalin launched his terror against the Russian avant-garde in the 1930s, it never occurred to his apparatchiks to hold a big show of the art he loathed. But this was precisely what Hitler did in the summer of 1937 in Munich, contrasting it with another exhibition -- reverently installed in the neoclassical halls of the new House of German...
...term "indirect cost," once merely bureaucratic jargon, has become a common phrase among higher education watchers. These issues have taken on crucial importance, as congressional leaders seek to clamp down on excessive spending of federal research dollars...