Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned valuable lessons from his downfall: do not let your fingernails grow to excess, do not inherit too much money, do not fly too high. The man's decay was so pathetic and so gaudy that it is difficult now even for those with a good grip on middle age to remember that once he was a hero. A strange hero, certainly, but a real one; a test pilot of impressive courage and a gifted, self-taught aircraft designer at a time when aviation was the century's brightest adventure. In 1935 he set the world landplane speed...
Weinberger insists that he is not interested in any dispute with Haig over prerogatives or authority. "I've got all the turf I want or could handle," he says. In fact, White House aides worry that Weinberger has yet to get a good grip on the country's massive but cumbersome military apparatus. Reagan aides are disappointed that Weinberger-now known to some as "Cap the Shovel," since he is dispensing the Administration's only budgetary increases-has not come up with any innovative overhauls of bloated programs to make the increased defense outlays more palatable...
...compulsion to do it their way, without the meeting-taking and compromises of the Hollywood scene. Most of the 17 films being distributed by First Run Features were financed, at least in part, by state or federal arts agencies. The government can hold the independent director in a grip as tight as any old-line studio chiefs, but without those grants the films might not be made. With the Reagan Administration planning to halve its funding of the arts and humanities endowments, these film makers must seek capital from private sources and from the public; hence the new theatrical showcases...
Most analysts feel that the Soviets could accept a certain amount of pluralism in Poland as long as a strong party retained a firm grip on the reins. But therein lies another political hazard-for the Polish party itself seems bent on reversing Leninist orthodoxy. In a watershed decision two weeks ago, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania bowed to rank-and-file demands and announced that delegates to July's party congress would be elected by secret ballot from an unlimited list of candidates. Until now, most delegates were chosen by the party leadership according to the Leninist principle...
...marketing, competitors to American Tobacco were mere puffs of smoke and United States Steel was an incredible amalgam of 148 companies that dwarfed runners-up. Washington's vigorous trustbusters lashed out against a variety of anticompetitive practices: Hollywood studios' control of movie theaters, Eastman Kodak's grip on film processing and United Shoe Machinery's knot on shoe manufacturing equipment...