Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilford spent his first three seasons riding the pine while classmate Rich Linden filled the starter's role. But when Linden struggled in the 1998 campaign and in this past off-season, Wilford stepped up to challenge Linden's grip...
...kind of tyranny over the life of a graduate," he said. "Once you graduate, they should lose their grip...
...then escaped. Both incidents--along with last July's trading-floor massacre in Atlanta, where an investor killed nine people before turning the gun on himself--attracted extensive live coverage on TV news channels. Anyone tuning in could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. is in the grip of an epidemic of workplace homicides. Says Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: "You start wondering whether the person at the next desk...
...everybody to sue everybody for everything, and Republicans are gridlocked by insurance companies and HMOs who give huge amounts of money." Soon he's rumbling through the domestic agenda like a tank. "The tax code is 44,000 pages long--why can't we reform it? Because of the grip of the special interests." He even applies his worldview to the G.O.P.'s $792 billion tax cut, which Clinton vetoed in September. "It included special tax breaks for the oil-and-gas industry that would have taken effect as soon as the President signed the bill--but the repeal...
...instruments, that was because anyone should be, could be on-stage and that was a/the point. And now he's a performer with an act and we're his consumer. Anyone who climbs on stage gets thrown off by security, which uses a really scary looking behind-the-head grip that must hurt like hell. Growing old? Avalon...