Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history, comparing Yeltsin's policies to the failed campaigns of reform-minded Czars like Peter the Great and Alexander...
Teams from Brigham Young University and Williams College were the only squads to challenge Harvard's stranglehold on the top spots, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively. The tournament's format featured Jeopardy-style questions and answers...
Lenora B. Fulani, New Alliance Party: Like many alternative candidates, Fulani calls for reform to the two-party system which she said maintains "a stranglehold" on the political process...
...neither growers nor plant workers had found much success in organizing or in finding powerful advocates. "The workers didn't feel they could organize and maintain their jobs, because many plants have an economic stranglehold on their towns," says Kelly Mitchell-Clark, an official of the Women's Project, a nonprofit group in Little Rock that conducted a study of the state's poultry belt. "Sometimes it's a big deal for these people just to be able to get off the processing line to go to the bathroom...
...time to liberalize election procedures for one of the University's top governing bodies. HAA should not be allowed to continue its stranglehold on the overseer positions. Whopping donations and election to high public office should not be the main criteria for the right to influence Harvard's future...