Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GOVERNOR CLINTON: The country is in the grip of two economic crises. The one that most people are preoccupied with is the three-year slowdown, the slowest three years of any presidency since before World War II, coming at the end of a decade of productivity decline. The result is the loss of a lot of our economic leadership, the collapse of a number of our high-wage jobs and the concomitant disintegration of a lot of the important parts of our society: more children living in poverty, more people working below the poverty line. Everybody concedes that somewhere between...
Tenuous and temporary as their grip may be, the Kurds of Iraq have come tantalizingly close to something like their centuries-old dream: a state of their own. Sheltering behind a security guarantee from the U.S.-led coalition, cut off from the south by a military blockade, the long-suffering Kurds have taken control of a 15,000-sq.-mi. slice of the country...
...Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked together to keep the banned union Solidarity alive and to break the Communist grip on Poland...
...does all that indicate that Saddam's grip is faltering? British intelligence analysts take exactly the opposite view: the boss of Baghdad has been able to liquidate his chief opponents, real or imagined. They add that Saddam has been playing an adroit game: doling out to the masses just enough of the food that comes through the United Nations-mandated blockade to keep them from starvation, while permitting privation that he can blame on the allies. Meanwhile he has rewarded the Republican Guard and other loyal forces with abundant rations and fat pay increases...
Back in the second game of the season, Harvard lost 85-84 to Boston University after Mitchell lost his grip on a low pass from Matt McClain. Eleven games and ten losses later, Mitchell lost the ball and the game again. Against New Hampshire, the key pass was from Tyler Rullman, but the result was the same...