Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things now stand, Haiti will move deeper into the grip of a military dictatorship and Somalia will slide back into chaos. The U.N. will have shown itself incapable of restoring usurped democracy, and unable to manage large-scale humanitarian intervention. The failure of these operations will not neccasarily preclude the U.N. from trying again, but the memory of debacles past will cast serious doubt on future missions...
...proof is in the pudding: It's an all-whitefaculty," says White. "It's an insult in 1993 tosay there aren't enough qualified people of color.They need to get a grip...
...Clinton's policy work in a more fundamental sense? Just maybe. Aidid's power is concentrated in southern Mogadishu (though that gives him a grip on the airport and the port area through which supplies for the rest of the country must move). In the countryside the U.N. has managed to organize three dozen councils of elders and other community representatives, and there are many reports of food moving to hungry people, of crops being planted and growing once again. It might be possible -- barely -- to promote a settlement among the councils and clan leaders that would include Aidid without...
...here's the challenge: to reduce inflation the government will have to get a grip on the Central Bank, which up until now has been happily engaging in printing large quantities of money and passing out huge low-interest loans. Meanwhile, industrial production has been plunging as parliament has insisted on supporting state factories as a jobs program, arguing that spreading unemployment could lead to riots. With elections set for December and a presidential vote next June, Yeltsin will have to be careful not to throw too many of his potential supporters out of work as he does battle against...
...certain emotions, facial expressions and attitudes to be expressed in their full-fledged wry and sardonic wit and irony. In one concise scene, Kubrick quickly establishes Humbert's desirability to both of his women when the three of them see a horror movie and the mother and daughter each grip his hand in fright. Presaging what is to follow in one deft move, Humbert extricates his left hand from the older Mrs. Haze's clutch and places it on top of Lolita's hand...