Word: grips
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DIED. GENERAL SANI ABACHA, 54, Nigerian dictator who wrested power in a 1993 coup and maintained his grip on Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation by canceling free elections and silencing critics through imprisonment or execution; from an apparent heart attack; in Abuja, Nigeria. Perhaps Abacha's most notorious act as President was hanging the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight associates accused of treason...
...Humbled by the first tangible evidence that the passing years do indeed have me in their grip, if only a gentle one, I am not made to feel better in dermatology. I tell Dr. Kenneth Tomecki, a dermatologist who is also in his 50s, that I am concerned about dry facial skin. He seems unfazed. "Young people are greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just...
Robinson has criticized the Chinese government for incidents of random detention and torture, and would like to visit Tibet in her upcoming trip to China in September. China invaded the territory in 1950 and has kept it under a tight grip since a 1959 rebellion...
...antitrust chief sees it, the computer industry is at a historic turning point. Web browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...
...course, so did Suharto. But Habibie's rather tenuous grip on power -- and his early unpopularity with students and opposition leaders -- could give the IMF crucial leverage when it comes to prodding him into difficult decisions. "For now the IMF will wait a while," says Branegan, "and hope that with Suharto gone, Indonesians will be more willing to bite the bullet next time around...