Word: stranglehold
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Hoping to crack Princeton's stranglehold on lightweight rowing for the past three seasons, Harvard's narrow loss in the first race of the spring to the first race of the spring to the normally docile Quakers was disappointing for the Crimson oarsmen--not to mention surprising--but hardly a critical blow...
Credit that skein of successes to broad-based support, ballot-box chicanery or a mix of both. The P.R.I.'s stranglehold on the political process has already ensured that the September 1988 presidential election will be a triumph for the party. Even so, cracks are visible in the organization's monolithic foundation. Mexico's economy has been devastated by plunging oil prices, a crushing $100 billion foreign debt and a sharply devalued peso. The crisis has forced the ruling party to impose tough austerity measures that have strained party loyalty. Suddenly the political vogue in P.R.I. circles is to speak...
...into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party a stranglehold on power. That in turn would perpetuate the grip of Chun's strongest supporter, the 600,000-member armed forces, on the political life of the country...
Answer: Go figure. Up until recently the Congress has been tightening the stranglehold of laws regulating and relating to the use of our nation's roads. Now it seems they have reversed direction...
...unprecedented pressure on the political system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold on power by means fair or foul...