Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing the same thing in Lebanon that they did in Viet Nam. By supplying the Syrians and the Druze with weapons, the U.S.S.R. is fostering internal feuds and abetting the downfall of Lebanon. In the end, the Soviets will not have lost one soldier, but they will have a stranglehold on the area...
...complain. But, as far as we are concerned, these seems to be no reason that we, today's student, should have to endure the lack of phones, privacy, and quiet, in addition to Harvard's general ineptitude, with absolutely no compensation or consideration. Harvard's convenient monopoly (read: stranglehold) on student housing makes their thoughtlessness all the more criminal. Will this corporation ever develop a conscience? Will they ever need...
...fortune by buying up bankrupt properties, Wirtz joined Grain Speculator James Norris to take control of Chicago Stadium in 1935, filling the arena with his own ice revues, his hockey Black Hawks and the basketball Bulls, of which he was part owner. The Wirtz-Norris interests gained such a stranglehold over boxing-promoting 90% of all championship bouts in the U.S. between 1949 and 1955-that a federal court ordered their International Boxing Clubs dissolved. Owner of a string of lakefront luxury high-rises that reportedly earned him more than $100 million a year, Wirtz once boasted...
...Paris and Riyadh. For the first time, non-OPEC members were being welcomed into the discussions. The oil ministers sought out representatives from Britain, Norway and Mexico, a step that symbolized the success of the non-OPEC world's attempt to free itself from the organization's stranglehold. Last year, for the first time in at least 20 years, the rest of the non-Communist world produced more oil than the 13 OPEC nations...
Political Action Committees (PACs) currently have a stranglehold on Congress. A determining factor in the 1980 Presidential election, PACs wield awesome power, capable not only of granting sizeable campaign contributions to House and Senate members but also of spending for or against a candidate independent of his official campaign committee...