Word: grip
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...more modern view of the world," says TIME State Department correspondent Douglas Waller. "It's probable that he doesn't hate the Israelis as much as his father did, but that doesn't mean he'll jump into a peace deal anytime soon - he has to consolidate his grip on power, and it'll be at least a year before he can even think about reopening talks with Israel. But being of a new generation and looking to the future, he may over the long term prove more willing than his father was to conclude a land-for-peace agreement...
...recover the strategic Golan Heights. Having failed to achieve that goal through the war of 1973 or the proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations first in 1994, and then again last year, in the hope of resolving the issue rather than leaving it to an heir whose grip on power would be a lot more tenuous. The U.S.-brokered talks, however, failed to produce a deal that even Assad could sell the Syrians, and it may be years before the winner of the coming power struggle is able to command sufficient political authority to deliver peace with Israel...
...other hand, I carried a scuffed, family grip that opened at the top like a big doctor's satchel, as well as--and I can't remember how--an upright Underwood typewriter...
...picked up the typewriter and the grip and started through the gate. I had expected Harvard kids to be unfriendly, or, let's say, not entirely egalitarian. In fact, I was there that night, because my high school English teacher kept me after classes so that I would write away for the application to Harvard, and kept me again until I filled...
...with Beijing amid the fallout from nuclear espionage allegations.) But skepticism over rapid reform has grown over the past year, less because of Maoist nostalgia than out of concern that its immediate consequences - massive unemployment with no social safety net - will provoke widespread unrest that could undermine Beijing's grip on power. It was the same concern to maintain order that drove the crackdown last year on the Falun Gong religious sect, which while it had no obvious political agenda represented an independent nationwide organization that the communist leadership found threatening. So while WTO membership will formally commit Beijing...