Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Choking in the grip of the U.N.'s economic sanctions, Saddam Hussein had in recent months tried a charm offensive, designed to persuade the U.S. to ease up--much to the disgust of at least one hard-liner close to him. Last week Saddam's eldest son Udai publicly condemned the conciliatory efforts as a failure and urged his father to take a harder line. On the very day that the U.S. succeeded once again in blocking efforts by France, Russia and China to loosen the sanctions, the two Americans were seized after they entered Iraq. "They're certainly...
...about everywhere else. Consider the recent lesson from Rutgers University. Here we have a perfectly nice liberal fellow, a college president with a record of responsiveness to minority concerns. He opens his mouth to talk about minority test scores, and then-like a Tourette's syndrome victim in the grip of a seizure-he comes out with the words "genetic hereditary background." Translated from the academese: minorities are dumb, and they're dumb because they're born that...
With all Algeria caught in the grip of such random terror, peaceable residents are reduced to constant fear for their lives. More than 80% of the 75,000 resident foreigners have fled since extremists singled them out for assassination. France has shut down two consulates, and diplomats everywhere are keeping out of sight. Western governments that might be expected to help negotiate some kind of conciliation between the Algerian government and the radicals confess to total frustration. France, which once ruled Algeria, is worried that the spreading war will seep into neighboring Tunisia and Morocco and provoke a massive flight...
...subwoofer, crackles in the surround speakers, punches through cleanly on the center channel above the screen. I turn and look: it's a heavy-set creature wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a logo HACKERS 1111. It has very long scythe-like claws, which it uses to grip a hot-pink cylinder. It's much better drawn than Raster; almost Disney- quality...
...course will be "an excellent way to get a grip on the emerging issues of law, business and public policy in cyberspace," Nesson said...