Word: grips
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...runs the government. But Aquino and Bhutto have spent much of their popular support. Unable to end Pakistan's ethnic strife, Bhutto has fallen, and her match-made husband Asif Zardari has been accused of corruption. With each threat of a coup, the Philippine economy falters, and Aquino's grip grows shakier...
Kerry's strong support of higher education and the environment have made him a favorite among college Democrats. Conversely, student Democratic leaders say that many undergraduates have grave doubts about the character of Silber, the Boston University president who many say ruled the institution with an iron grip...
Jones, try as he might, couldn't write a tune. So he was cut out of the publishing revenues and the limelight. Jagger and Richards were too formidable for the slight, blond, increasingly tuned-out guitarist. Jones lost his grip on the group, and on his own life, and he died on the bottom of the swimming pool at his English estate, a property once owned by A.A. Milne, an author who believed in happier endings...
...White House he soothed the sulking Democrats of Capitol Hill. They still smarted over the fact that he had interrupted their party's long grip on the presidency. He won Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson to his side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...
Backed further and further into a corner, Saddam Hussein has applied his energies to splintering the motley alliance of nations mustered against him. He attempted to paralyze some Western countries by making hostages of the foreign nationals caught in his grip. He sought to fragment his fellow Arabs by pitting the poor against the rich. He tried to crack the global economic sanctions imposed against him by making a hasty and generous peace with Iran. And he attempted to exploit anti-Americanism, always a potent force, by casting U.S. intervention in the gulf as a case of Yankee imperialism...