Word: straitjacket
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...play dog: "I like being animals. You know why? I never heard of a famous animals. Oh, a couple of Lassies--an occasional Trigger--but, by and large, animals weren't meant to be famous." Various nuns, Hollywood types, the son of the Shaughnessys and a man with a straitjacket add to the general melee...
...takeover battle for Trans World Airlines in August 1985, corporate raider Carl Icahn donned a pilot's cap and uniform jacket and paraded triumphantly around his Manhattan office. The parade didn't last long. Plagued by labor strife, mounting losses and bruising competition, TWA became more of a financial straitjacket for the erstwhile wizard than the trophy he had envisioned. In recent years, as he struggled to keep the now bankrupt carrier aloft, Icahn groped for a graceful way to bail out. Despite near frantic efforts, he was unable to find a willing buyer or merger partner, until...
...there exists an imminent danger of nationalistic and ethnic conflict. In some cases nations were not able to search freely for and find their own identity and form of statehood and gain their independence for tens or even hundreds of years. We cannot be surprised that now, when the straitjacket of communism has been torn off, all the countries wish to establish their independence and self-determination...
...constitution was finally amended to give Clinton a four-year term in 1986 (just when shorter term limits were gaining support elsewhere). At a time of pinched resources, Clinton has had experience of working within a financial straitjacket, setting priorities, concentrating on the essential tasks. The whole nation is in the grips of an antigovernment mood that he has dealt with in what was, until recently, the capital of opposition to government...
...Colorado is not in good shape," says Norris Hundley Jr., a historian at UCLA. "It essentially exists in a straitjacket." Last April the Arizona stretch of the Colorado was named "the most endangered river of 1991" by American Rivers, a Washington-based conservation group. A prolonged drought in the U.S. Southwest, now in its fifth year, has dealt the Colorado a double whammy. Less snow to melt at its sources means less water coursing downriver; reduced rainfall elsewhere means even greater demands on the diminished flow...