Word: stranglehold
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Stanton's ten vice presidents (average age, 45) agree with him and Paley that CBS must concentrate on news, drama, public service programs and music to offset NBC's stranglehold on comedy. Last week, two new V.P.s-39-year-old Davidson Taylor and 41-year-old Edward R. Murrow-took over programming completely after Vice President Douglas Coulter "resigned...
Spain's totalitarian party, the Falange, of which Franco is Caudillo (leader), is another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...
Naval aviators have been struggling for years to break the battleship admirals' stranglehold on topside jobs. This week, in a command shake-up being rigged for public announcement, they saw their hopes fulfilled...
...second half of the intramural season opens, local deposters agree that the Eliot eleven has a virtual stranglehold on the championship; but this afternoon will mark the debut of Dudley's commuters, rumored to be a possible dark horse contender, against Kirkland. The new eleven may provide the sailors with more competition than they have had to date...
...real production stranglehold is the "quota." The quota started as a scheme to beat the hated production speed-up which workers suspect in Akron's piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves...