Word: stranglehold
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...Waterman run a kind of pop-star atelier in South London, where "we have pretty much a hard and fast rule that no one we work with is over 25. There are too many aging rockers hanging on to the charts." Actually, it was SA&W that had a stranglehold on the English charts for most of 1987. The production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content...
...schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under a 19-year-old decentralization plan, elementary and junior high schools enjoy wide latitude in curriculum and administrative matters -- which has resulted in a chaotic absence of accountability. Nevertheless, the central bureaucracy keeps a stranglehold on orders for such bedrock necessities as textbooks and Xerox paper...
...debate. "It's nothing short of appalling," he declared, "that five of six Republican candidates refuse to support the new arms-control agreement." The next night Michael Dukakis painted the treaty opponents as captives of ultraconservative ideologues: "Do we need any further proof that the radical right has a stranglehold on the Republican Party?" As conservatives snipe at the White House, Democrats can say with a smile that they stand united in support of Ronald Reagan...
...heels of revelations that Columbia has lowered its admissions standards to bolster its sagging gridiron team, and allegations that Penn did the same during its five-year stranglehold on the Ivy title, it is refreshing that a school whose admissions standards have never been impuned captured the Ivy title...
Gorbachev cleared a major hurdle at last month's Central Committee plenum, when he won backing for a far-reaching new law on state enterprises. The measure is intended to loosen the stranglehold of the central planning bureaucracy by giving greater independence to factory and farm managers. Among other provisions, it will require that local managers be elected by their workers and that the country's 48,000 state enterprises fund new and continuing operations from their own profits. Before the law takes effect next January, it must be accompanied by a package of enabling legislation dealing with such things...