Word: clamped
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That's still a long way off. The willingness of moderate Sunnis to pursue a political solution could easily crumble if the next government in Baghdad fails to improve conditions in Sunni areas and clamp down on sectarian excesses by Shi'ite militias. And even if the U.S. can lure some guerrillas to the negotiating table, it still faces a seemingly inescapable quandary: so long as U.S. troops are involved in combat in Iraq, there's every reason to believe the insurgency will be able to recruit sufficient numbers of motivated new fighters to do battle with them. Rhode Island...
Denver’s goaltending is steady, but nowhere near as deserving of respect as its offense, so the Beavers will have to clamp down in front of Climie at their own end, then hope to steal a goal or two at the other and pray that the bounces all go their...
...recent upgrade, called Exeem, blends the swarming technology with the more robust search capabilities of earlier peer-to-peer software; instead of visiting tracker sites, users enter a title in a search box and Exeem scours the Web for the file--making it trickier for the piracy police to clamp down on scofflaws...
...fair to the Harvard administration, Massachusetts state law does not make it easy to engender a more responsible, mature culture of alcohol use. The state is all too ready to clamp down on universities that do not make every effort to stop students drinking and provides ample precedent for students to sue universities for their own idiocy in alcohol consumption...
...Sharon will still have some leeway in demanding that a new Palestinian leadership proves its intent to clamp down on terrorism. But if the leadership replacing Arafat is dominated by the likes of such recognized moderates as former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas the Israeli leader will also face pressure to help his Palestinian counterparts cement their authority. The most important first step in this regard may be withdrawing troops and easing the security grip on Palestinian population centers to allow the holding of elections...