Word: grips
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...magazine's editors have fired an opening shot in a debate that started the moment the closing ceremony's last firework exploded: What now for China? Will party hardliners, emboldened by the world's timid response to their brutal pre-Games crackdown on dissent, continue to tighten their grip on power? Or will the spirit of volunteerism and community that arose after the May earthquake in Sichuan be revived? Could reform-minded party officials - like those who approved the publication of Southern Window's special issue - gain ground in their drive to loosen control over areas such as the courts...
...Western sentiment remains the stock market. Its recent nosedive reflects not just political turmoil, but also signs of an economy under stress. While GDP is expected to rise about 7.5% this year, Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics in London, warns that unless Russian authorities get a grip on this heady growth and "take some of the steam out of the economy, we could have a fairly nasty correction over the medium term." Meanwhile, a report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in July warned that Moscow must do much more to end domestic production bottlenecks...
...school of thought, however, believes the national social mobilization effort, such as getting hundreds of thousands of citizen volunteers to look out for terrorists in the capital, and the economic cost of ensuring a peaceful and smooth Games mean the authorities will have no choice but to loosen their grip...
Sure, there's a goalie there, but think about it: you get to throw a little ball into a fairly big net. Soccer is hard precisely because you can't use your hands; it's difficult to control a ball with your feet. Here, just grip it and rip it. Basketball is tricky because the hoop is 10 ft. off the ground and relatively tiny. Here, throw it high, throw it low, you will score...
...alone - at least in spirit. "Team is everything," says head coach Kevin Mazeika. "Our mantra is 100% one team, one dream." China's Yang Wei is the current world champion, and expected to avenge his 2004 nightmare, in which he literally fell from medal contention when he lost his grip on the high bars. The drop pushed him out to seventh while gold went to Paul Hamm...