Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next question was equally patronizing and arrogant, typical of a Harvard mind. Was this lady crazy? Didn't she understand that Harvard is the very paragon of enlightenment? She needed to get a grip on reality. Harvard teaches math, political science, physics, English. Its students and teachers are the best thinkers and human beings around...
Even if it turns out that Kim has a firm grip on power, he may not be able to hold on to it very long. He faces a policy dilemma that carries the seeds of his destruction: keeping the country isolated and politically rigid will result in widespread starvation and economic collapse, whereas serious efforts at reform will either topple the regime or lead to a coup by hard-liners. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes Kim will manage to stay around long enough to negotiate away his nuclear bomb program -- if he intends to do so and his rivals...
Zedillo will have to keep a grip on inflation but also push for economic growth. He will have to find ways to get more purchasing power to consumers, spreading the country's rising prosperity more evenly. If he cannot do it, the vote next time could produce real change: a President who is not from the P.R.I...
...crossing to Florida. But it was clear that American threats stood little chance of prevailing over Cuba's hungers. By the time President Clinton went on television to reverse nearly 30 years of Cuban policy, he was characterizing the exodus as "a cold-blooded attempt to maintain the Castro grip on Cuba." Unwilling to be blackmailed by the threat of a humanitarian disaster, Clinton revoked the special status Cuban refugees have long enjoyed, which guarantees them asylum if they reach U.S. shores...
...punish the Bosnian Serbs for their third rejection of a Western-brokered peace settlement. Although he has been their primary sponsor in the 28-month war, Milosevic appears to be fearful that continuing to support the Bosnian Serbs would lead to tightened trade sanctions against Serbia, thus weakening his grip on power...