Word: leash
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...SHORTENING THE LEASH...
...Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Soviet-era official who claims to have been the only member of the Belarus legislature to vote against the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, was elected to his third term as president. With his command of 84% of the vote and a tight leash on opposition parties, he has good reason to expect that he will remain president for life...
...have some questions for my money manager. How much would it cost to get a guy on a leash and walk him around until he pees? I just need a few months with him to find out some stuff. Like: What would he pee on? What would he chase as he ran around in circles? If he saw another guy on a leash, what metric would he use to decide whether to fight him or sniff his rear end? Can he really taste the difference between organic and nonorganic dog food? Do squirrels have a filet-mignon section? I need...
...Eclipse, where he plays a stock market trader who catches the attention of Vittoria (Vitti), who has just broken up with her rich boyfriend. During the frenetic bidding or in a cafe afterward, Delon is constantly on the move, going nowhere fast, and Antonioni gives him a long leash to display his ruthlessness and his boyish charm...
...Super Bowl Sunday in early February, there was little Drew Gilpin Faust could do to lose. With her husband by her side and her mutt Clio on a leash, the business-suit-clad Faust strolled down Brattle Street, the historic Victorian way to the west of Harvard Yard. Outside the Garage complex on John F. Kennedy Street, she handed the leash to her husband and hopped into a waiting car headed for downtown Boston. There she would face and finally win over the nine-member group of lawyers, academics, and businessmen hunting for Harvard’s next president...