Word: stranglehold
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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...
...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...