Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vestiges of pluralism remain, but the Sandinistas steadily tighten their grip...
...second game proved more competitive, with both teams maintaining potentially equal scores throughout. With Smith up 8-7, the Crimson broke things open. With sophomore Margaret Asomaning serving, Harvard rallied for six straight points to take a 14-7 grip on the game. Close coordination between spiker Asomaning and junior setter Cathy Wong kept Smith out of the contest and, in spite of the opponents' spectacular dives and rolls, Harvard clinched the game...
...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...
...offset the play's some what tenuous grip of reality, aged photos are intermittently flashed against the set. Sometimes the pictures help us relate to the stylized movements on stage by giving us a sense of context, but at other times these just complicate an already nebulous plot. For example, Bolden and a fictional photographer named Bellocq make a pact in which the musician supplies his friend with nude women for subjects. Besides the questionable relation of the episode to the plot, the constant flashing of nudes borders on the offensive and pornographic...
...during the invasion of Lebanon, Assad has rebuilt not only his country's armed forces but its image and its diplomatic position. Far from humbled, he has acquired a decisive voice in the future of Lebanon and of the Palestinian movement. At home, thanks to a steel-fisted grip that has squelched most of the opposition to his regime, Assad is more secure than at any other time in his 13 years in office...