Word: stranglehold
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...McNealy has been flacking his "the network is the computer" vision for years, pitching his Web-focused Java language as the platform on which to build a new generation of cheap, single-purpose network appliances, from TV set-top boxes to cell phones, that could finally break Microsoft's stranglehold on the digital universe. His deal with AOL--which also puts Sun's 7,000-strong sales force to work selling Netscape's e-commerce software--marks the official inauguration of a coalition that the industry had long since dubbed ABM: Anyone But Microsoft...
...G.O.P.'s stranglehold on governorships in large states means that Republicans will have veto power over the drawing of legislative maps that will take place after the 2000 census. The coming redistricting could tilt the composition of the House of Representatives the G.O.P.'s way well into the next century. Fast-growing Georgia, for instance, stands to add two seats to its congressional delegation in 2000; if Millner wins this year, the G.O.P. will start plotting to carve out new districts in the state's conservative northern region...
...will take more than a soccer victory to break Khamenei's grip: The conservative-dominated legislature chose the day of the match to impeach the liberal interior minister Abdullah Nouri for allowing a demonstration against the conservative stranglehold. Khatami fired back by appointing Nouri as deputy president. The president's 70 percent majority in last year's election confirmed his overwhelming popular support, but conservatives still dominate the country's political and judicial institutions. So the battle for the soul of Iran is still in its first period, and the mullahs aren't exactly shy with the red card...
After entering last weekend with a near stranglehold on the league's Gehrig Division, the Tigers nearly suffered a calamitous fall. Needing only one win in a four-game series with Cornell to secure the title, on Sunday night Princeton found itself down 0-3 in the series, needing a victory in the finale to continue its season...
...Chiapas lawlessness, however, is simply a part of Mexico's wider emergency. Much of the violence stems from uncontrolled drug trafficking and the economic crisis of 1994, from which the country is recovering, but not fast enough. The erosion of the 70-year P.R.I. stranglehold on power is another big factor, similar to the crime wave that blossomed in Russia after the collapse of communism. Until Mexico's new democracy builds effective judicial institutions--and that may take a generation or more--thugs can run amuck. "Criminals were practically licensed under the P.R.I.," says Roy Godson, a national-security expert...