Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ORGANIZED labor long ago acquired a stranglehold over the $85 billion construction industry. That power has not only led to an astronomic rise in building wages but has also enabled unions to load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...
Penn, also undefeated, it the only crew powerful enough to have any chance of stopping Harvard's intercollegiate rowing juggernaut, and the Quakers would lke nothing better than to break the Crimson's five-year stranglehold on both the Adams Cup and the Eastern Rowing title...
Throughout the week blacks had a stranglehold control over the protesting students. The leaders, who remained anonymous until the end of the week, met secretly early in the mornings and emerged at 10 a.m. to explain the day's tactics to white students awaiting orders in the Student Union...
...Congress." The man who founded CORE 26 years ago is more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...
France, 1944. Hysterically, a German soldier tries to break the American sergeant's stranglehold. But there is no escape; the grip grows tighter until the soldier chokes to death. The sergeant releases his victim -and his own breath returns in a series of orgasmic spasms...