Word: stranglehold
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...will take more than a soccer victory to break Khamenei's grip: The conservative-dominated legislature chose the day of the match to impeach the liberal interior minister Abdullah Nouri for allowing a demonstration against the conservative stranglehold. Khatami fired back by appointing Nouri as deputy president. The president's 70 percent majority in last year's election confirmed his overwhelming popular support, but conservatives still dominate the country's political and judicial institutions. So the battle for the soul of Iran is still in its first period, and the mullahs aren't exactly shy with the red card...
After entering last weekend with a near stranglehold on the league's Gehrig Division, the Tigers nearly suffered a calamitous fall. Needing only one win in a four-game series with Cornell to secure the title, on Sunday night Princeton found itself down 0-3 in the series, needing a victory in the finale to continue its season...
...Chiapas lawlessness, however, is simply a part of Mexico's wider emergency. Much of the violence stems from uncontrolled drug trafficking and the economic crisis of 1994, from which the country is recovering, but not fast enough. The erosion of the 70-year P.R.I. stranglehold on power is another big factor, similar to the crime wave that blossomed in Russia after the collapse of communism. Until Mexico's new democracy builds effective judicial institutions--and that may take a generation or more--thugs can run amuck. "Criminals were practically licensed under the P.R.I.," says Roy Godson, a national-security expert...
...pushed by a will to live as other men are fired by a taste for power or money. Intel, the firm that Grove built, has survived in one of the most tumultuous industries in history, emerging to become one of the most powerful companies of our age, with a stranglehold on one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century. And though Intel's spotless clean rooms, its brilliant engineers and its bunny-suited workers seem far removed from that Austrian hillside, few places better reflect the sense of urgency with which the firm operates. Grove has it boiled down...
...equation, and it's a jarring reality pretty much across the tech board. Success breeds imitators. Imitators flood the market with goods. Prices (and profits) come down. Again, take Intel. It supplies nearly 90% of the microprocessors in PCs worldwide--a more commanding grip than even Microsoft's stranglehold on PC operating systems. But to protect its position, Intel has cut semiconductor prices faster than anyone expected as rivals Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices compete furiously to supply cheaper components for the $1,000 PCs now taking the world by storm. Intel's profit margin has eroded from nearly...