Word: grips
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...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...
...Carmine (the Snake) Persico, the 59-year-old boss currently serving a 100-year prison term in Lompoc, Calif., for racketeering. The Persico forces are being challenged by 60 or so members loyal to Victor (Little Vic) Orena, the 57-year-old acting head who has been solidifying his grip on the family's businesses, ranging from gambling and prostitution to air freight, construction, catering and liquor distribution...
...freed from government control this week, although the cost of basics like bread, milk, salt, medicine and vodka will still be regulated. The results may be no more satisfactory than those of perestroika because many state-run monopolies, including wholesale and retail suppliers, retain their paralyzing grip on the distribution system. With hyperinflation a real threat, much of the population feels menaced by poverty as well as hunger this winter...