Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next year, 10 returning starters will lead the Crimson in its quest to break Brown's stranglehold on the Ivy title. But graduation will deprive the Crimson of Co-Captains Jen Gifford and Andrea Montalbano...
Added to ethnic grievances in Armenia is the railway blockade, which began + two months ago when Azerbaijanis stopped allowing freight cars through railyards in Nakhichevan. The facility handles 85% of goods bound for Armenia from other Soviet republics, giving the Azerbaijanis a virtual stranglehold. The cutoff has not affected food supplies, many of which are home grown, and markets in Yerevan last week were stocked with fruits and vegetables. But fuel supplies were virtually nonexistent. Car owners waited in lines at the city's gas stations for days at a time. There were also acute shortages of many building supplies...
...Liberal Democratic Party tightened its stranglehold on power in the early 1950s, it moved to squelch the powerful labor unions that had formed in the economic chaos following...
While the scientific community still argues over the validity of independent fusion confirmations at Brigham Young University and Sao Paulo University in Brazil, it seems certain that widespread adoption of fusion technology would significantly loosen the stranglehold oil producing nations have over other industrial countries...
...Crimson (21-3 overall this year, 12-0 this spring), which missed the two inaugural Beanpot bouts, has taken home the 'Pot each of the last two years. Harvard will attempt to keep its stranglehold on the Beanpot championship today when it battles Boston College at Soldiers Field (10 a.m. kickoff...