Word: grips
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...rollers zeroed in on my shoulders, switching to a caressing and tapping motion, I started to enjoy it. The viselike grip of the air bags on my calves had me somewhat concerned, but realizing that resistance was futile, I finally let my left hand flop into the curved hand rest. Soon, pulsing air cushions were working their magic. With my free hand, I pushed a button that directed the chair to start in on my legs, hips and lower back. Ahh. That's it. Perfect. This nightmare was turning into a dream--until someone said, "Time...
...give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon is in the grip of a preventive-war mentality. "It's an attitude that we must strike the haystack in the hope of hitting the needle." Legally, Blair has few good options. He can't guarantee to Washington that the two men would face trial in the U.K. because the Crown Prosecution Service is independent...
Summers made a few notes on the backhand grip and then discussed the Harvard tennis team’s success last season...
...half the population is Muslim, antagonistic to its own government over issues such as corruption and enraged by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Islamist challenge there is growing, with provincial governments instituting Taliban-style Sharia law, and the political system increasingly in crisis. The country is in the grip of a general strike, and five people were killed in riots in Lagos Monday...
...down in the U.S. Constitution of 1787, is the separation of powers between executive, legislature and judiciary. Berlusconi is the executive, dominates the legislature, and is relentlessly going after the judiciary. Nor is the Fourth Estate any safer. Most of the media is owned outright by Berlusconi, and his grip on the rest is so strong that even Italian state television's evening news show, TG1, dubbed over his remarks last week when it ran footage of him making his gaffe. Berlusconi's usurpation of power is a serious political issue - one that catcalls and japes from the benches...