Word: grips
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Last week the Prime Minister's grip weakened when the Social Democrats, the largest party in his coalition, threatened to quit over a new plan to cut taxes $55 billion this year and impose a new 7% "national welfare" sales tax in 1997. The changes were part of a $138 billion package to fire up the economy and satisfy Washington's demands for a strong boost to consumer spending. The Social Democrats rebelled at the new tax, which Hosokawa had adopted under pressure from the tightfisted Ministry of Finance, and forced the Prime Minister to abandon the plan. The fiasco...
Perhaps the state has been through too much to be able to tax its way out of its latest catastrophe. "This time," says political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the Claremont Graduate School, "we are facing the fifth year of a budget deficit. We are still in the grip of the most serious recession in California since the Great Depression. And on top of everything else, this is an election year in California...
...book's high point is a set-piece chapter toward the end in which Kreer's enemies close in and he loses his grip. Mostly it is snippets from self- righteous letters from parishioners (with copies to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Queen) and deadly announcements of custody warfare and collapsed credit. For savagery, it's worth the novel...
There is a growing breed of shopper in gun stores and on the shooting range that fits a very different profile from the traditional sportsman. More and more are women: Smith & Wesson reports that sales of its Lady Smith line of rosewood-grip guns doubled last year. That troubles Barbara Shaw, executive director of the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence. "Women are being encouraged to buy guns to protect themselves," she observes. "That's the hardest argument to deal with because the fear can be very real. The gun can create an aura of control. But in reality...
...current debate over the legitimacy of testimony based on an individual's thoughts, hysteria does not grip the courts. Defendants are not convicted without corroborating evidence; countersuits against accusers and their therapists are being successfully pursued. In some cases, the courts may be favoring the defendants; many states have not altered their statutes of limitations to allow victims to bring charges for crimes that occurred many years...