Word: grips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world but produced nothing to improve the miserable daily lot of his people. He granted greater freedoms, but those liberties added fuel to the militant nationalism now threatening the fabric of the state. Yet in the midst of his failure to invigorate the economic system, Gorbachev's own grip on power grew stronger after every test. There was, everyone said, no alternative to Gorbachev...
...total ruin and so on. They're intellectually unprepared for the kind of major changes that are objectively necessary. That's one reason I have recently stressed the role in perestroika of science and education. They can help us change the mentality of society and free ourselves from the grip of outdated, sometimes fundamentally erroneous concepts of economics, politics, culture, morality and philosophy. I'm thinking, for example, about old egalitarian principles that reduce everyone to the same level and old approaches to public wealth that excessively stress the distribution of goods at the expense of other considerations...
...that the entire region is growing dangerously impatient with the political stalemate. The shock wave spread to Jordan, where a Palestinian attacked a busload of tourists, wounding ten, and four Palestinians died after thousands took to the streets in the worst rioting since April 1989, threatening King Hussein's grip on the troubled kingdom. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak warned that settlement of Soviet Jews in the disputed territories threatened "to put the whole region on the verge of a new bloody confrontation...
...life in sports. If you had to create a situation to test the body, here's a guy who was great. He has taken care of himself. He has been sort of hibernating, time warped. We'll see what happens. But they don't really have a firm grip if a male body matures between 28 and 32. Now they say maybe it's 35. I might prove they really don't know what the hell they're talking about, and it may not even be until you're 50. I think we're going to redefine what 40-year...
Authoritarian regimes in Africa begin to give way to multiparty systems. -- Albania eases its Stalinist grip. -- A Soviet Communist Party official reflects on nationalism's silver lining...