Word: stranglehold
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Like so much else in the Microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact both stated what many suspected and left crucial details until later. The findings: Microsoft is indeed a monopoly, possessing a stranglehold over the PC desktop. It has abused the power, and that abuse has harmed consumers. The findings so closely paralleled the government line that you might have thought they were actually written by lead DOJ attorney Joel Klein. But that just shows Judge Jackson was paying attention, says TIME's Chris Taylor: "He's shown in this ruling a real grasp...
...Seles confused Steffi. Suddenly, Steffi found herself overpowered for the first time. She couldn't keep up with the lethal combination of two-fisted groundstrokes and relentless pace. As the rivalry intensified, Seles gradually obtained the stranglehold. After wining the Australian Open in 1993 over Graf, it seemed that Steffi simply couldn't challenge...
Ever since a 1992 multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuit that highlighted the force's poor management, Harvard stopped hiring in-house guards, effectively setting up a stranglehold on the force. The management problems showed Harvard the benefits of outsourcing. After all, Harvard specializes in education, not guarding. It seems natural that Harvard employ companies to provide services like security that are secondary to Harvard's primary goal. And the guards employed by SSI, a private security company, have proven their competence at the medical and business school campuses...
...unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold of each on the other has never been more evident than it is today. Not so many years ago, money-hungry doctors were seen as plundering American wallets, and Democrat-friendly HMOs were perceived as the last line of defense for the poor and the working-class. Oh, how times have...
...Congress' vote in the 1950s to put the word "God" onto our paper money, into our national motto and into our Pledge of Allegiance; the Congress and President Reagan's formal declaration that 1983 was the "Year of the Bible"; and the recent increase of the Religious Right's stranglehold on the Republican party's leadership. But the quick mind of the observant conservative will not be fooled. He knows that all of this evidence doesn't count, and that the villainous liberals have made our society and politics intolerant of religion...