Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beijing's leaders may find that building an electronic great wall around Hong Kong will be an impossible feat. The virtual medium looks like Hong Kong's most powerful protection for free speech, since whatever China may do to plug the holes in the new wall by tightening its grip on Hong Kong's 49 ISPs, the Internet by nature is virtually unpoliceable. If pressed, Hong Kong's controversial web sites can merely move to the unregulated foreign web services. And sooner or later, Internet users deep in the mainland are bound to be chuckling over Fat Dragon's latest...
...persona can alternate from the professorial to the cagey. Pressing Carnesale on a controversial issue is a lot like wrestling an alligator: it's hard to get a grip, and just when you think you have one, he slips away...
...vogue for southwestern decor and food may be as passe as the vogue for Northwestern rock bands, but New Mexico retains its grip on the national imagination, fighting off contenders like Florida (South Beach! Backyard gators!) and North Dakota (Partial site of a Coen brothers movie!) for the title of America's coolest state. Why is New Mexico still the champ? One word: Roswell...
...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...
...still has a firm grip on power, but there are signs of turmoil in the leadership. About half a dozen senior officials have died or been fired recently. The CIA has received reports that some military commanders have been cashiered and some units redeployed because their loyalty was questioned. The Pentagon estimates that North Korea's supply-starved army could not sustain an attack for much longer than a month. But U.S. Pacific Command chief Admiral Joseph Prueher fears that Kim could still "lash out should the survival of the regime become threatened." As long as that's possible...