Word: stranglehold
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...wild in Somalia. After 19 months of war and a long drought, 1.5 million of the country's estimated 6 million people face imminent starvation. Only an urgent plea by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali prompted the U.N. Security Council to authorize a broad plan to break the stranglehold that armed factions have on the African nation. Under its terms, if the Somalis refuse to accept a U.N. force to protect supplies and relief workers, the U.N. "would not exclude other means" of carrying out its mission -- an unprecedented threat...
Harvard's victory in the Easterns broke the Tigers' five year stranglehold on the title and gave the Crimson its first title since...
...industrial affairs, health, education and immigration. But labor policy proved far thornier. Eleven members signed a "social chapter" that expands E.C. authority over labor practices, including minimum wages, working hours and firings. Again Britain opted out -- hardly surprising, given the years of Thatcherite determination to loosen labor unions' stranglehold on the country's economy...
...conflict over diminishing resources is scrambling the political map of California. Traditional allies such as agriculture and big developers frequently find themselves at odds. Some environmental groups have aligned with cities against agricultural interests to try to break big farmers' stranglehold on water supplies. Others have joined forces with surfers to fight pollution from pulp-paper mills and with commercial fisherman to end logging practices that destroy watersheds...
...once again, he did all that, and more. In his attempt to break the ministries' stranglehold on the economy, Gorbachev made decentralization one of the cornerstones of perestroika. Under the slogan of demokratizatsiya, he created conditions around the country for popular local leaders, frequently outspoken nationalists, to defeat Moscow's minions. As a result of glasnost, the Kremlin faced up to some of the uglier truths of Soviet history, including the illegality of Stalin's annexation of the three Baltic republics...