Word: stranglehold
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...most conservatives would vehemently deny that they are racist or indifferent to the concerns of Blacks, and some of them may be telling the truth. But they must be judged by their actions. Today's neoconservatism is just an extension of white America's fierce struggle to continue its stranglehold on America's resources and opportunities...
...During most of the past 50 years, honest officials in Sicily who tried to block or expose Mafia corruption tended to become what Sicilians call "excellent cadavers." Two who met this fate are the heroes of Alexander Stille's new book about the Mafia's longtime stranglehold on Sicily. Prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino managed to break the infamous code of silence that surrounded the Mafia. Their evidence led to the 1987 conviction of 344 Mafia members, but in 1992 both prosecutors were assassinated.TIME critic John Elsonsays the while "Excellent Cadavers" is a bit uneven, it is nonetheless...
...access to tertiary education, a necessity in today's world, in the stranglehold of the chosen few who wield this enormous power in fashioning America's managerial class...
...control and has the support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands, and for the Bureau of Land Management to return land holdings to the states. "The Federal Government has a stranglehold on the rural West," says Met Johnson, a G.O.P. state legislator in Utah and a co-founder of the coalition, "We are not the reactionary right wing. We know that we can manage these lands better than they can from inside the Beltway...
...their attendant modems are knitting together the global village just as Marshall McLuhan predicted. While no country is as well connected as the U.S., with 32 PCs per 100 citizens, Europe and Asia are coming up fast. Among the reasons are the privatization of industry, which is breaking the stranglehold of government telecommunications monopolies, and the recognition by political leaders of the vital importance of getting up to speed on the worldwide Infobahn (as the Europeans prefer to call...