Word: stranglehold
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...Carter and Johnson--were Southerners. They also like to compare Edwards' skills on the stump and in front of a camera with President Clinton's. But it's not clear that running for Vice President helped Edwards, whose presence on the ticket did nothing to break the G.O.P.'s stranglehold on the South...
...their campaigns, both of these Harvard affiliates called for an end to the Democratic Party stranglehold on local politics. That vise-like grip remains—last week, they both lost to Democratic opponents who enjoyed larger war chests and overwhelming neighborhood support. Still, they say they enjoyed the ride...
TIME Is there anything you can do in a second term to try to break that stranglehold of special interests...
...middle of the country remains the biggest concern for U.S. commanders, not least because the escalating danger of working there has slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The Marines eased their stranglehold on the city three weeks ago, placed a former general in Saddam's army in charge of security and began joint patrols through the city with local Iraqi forces. So far, the patrols have gone off without major incident. The change in tactics--for weeks the U.S. had been threatening...
...that darkness is the ponytailed Schwartz, 38, the firm's new COO. He most recently ran Sun's software division, where he headed new strategies for deploying Sun's Java platform. One ongoing initiative: a push into markets such as China and India, where Microsoft doesn't have a stranglehold and Sun can more easily sell its systems for desktops and devices...