Word: stranglehold
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Lenora B. Fulani, New Alliance Party: Like many alternative candidates, Fulani calls for reform to the two-party system which she said maintains "a stranglehold" on the political process...
...neither growers nor plant workers had found much success in organizing or in finding powerful advocates. "The workers didn't feel they could organize and maintain their jobs, because many plants have an economic stranglehold on their towns," says Kelly Mitchell-Clark, an official of the Women's Project, a nonprofit group in Little Rock that conducted a study of the state's poultry belt. "Sometimes it's a big deal for these people just to be able to get off the processing line to go to the bathroom...
...time to liberalize election procedures for one of the University's top governing bodies. HAA should not be allowed to continue its stranglehold on the overseer positions. Whopping donations and election to high public office should not be the main criteria for the right to influence Harvard's future...
...wild in Somalia. After 19 months of war and a long drought, 1.5 million of the country's estimated 6 million people face imminent starvation. Only an urgent plea by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali prompted the U.N. Security Council to authorize a broad plan to break the stranglehold that armed factions have on the African nation. Under its terms, if the Somalis refuse to accept a U.N. force to protect supplies and relief workers, the U.N. "would not exclude other means" of carrying out its mission -- an unprecedented threat...
Harvard's victory in the Easterns broke the Tigers' five year stranglehold on the title and gave the Crimson its first title since...