Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make society more comfortable. He blames the system for making that impossible. Initially, he said, some progress was visible, but when senior officials of the party and state saw how the reforms might threaten their power and positions, they put on the brakes. If the ruling hierarchy's grip was to be broken, he decided, a more democratic form of politics would have to be introduced. He assumed that power would have to be decentralized and that he would have to give up some of his authority. But he could not and did not know where it all was headed...
Perhaps so. But it's hard for citizens in the industrialized U.S. -- which is relatively self-sufficient and historically prone to protectionist impulses -- to get a grip on GATT, let alone get very alarmed about its potential failure. Successive rounds of negotiations, diligently conducted since 1947, have pushed down tariffs from 40% to 4% in member countries. Still, people find it difficult to connect the statistical aggregates of GATT-speak with their lives and wallets...
...simply don't know. This industry is always in the grip of its dumbest competitors. I was surprised when TWA cut fares. I don't understand TWA's strategy. It doesn't make any sense, and therefore I don't know what they will do to further lower fares. All I know is that we have no choice but to match whatever low fare anybody puts out there. And so it will get as bad as they want...
...caught in the greedy grip of gravity, falling at 9.8 meters per second squared. The training took over...
Miguel has an 80.6 percent success rate with the quad. One night out of five the grip with brother Juan is not sure, fingers do not clutch wrists, and for one sickening instant Miguel drops toward the ground. The knot in your stomach rips apart, and you think that is has finally happened...