Word: stronghold
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...Cornell squash team, which rejoined the Ivy League last year after a 15-year hiatus, graduated its bulwark player, All-American number-one seed Paul Gardner. Without a stronghold of incoming players to rely on, it's having difficulty adjusting to the changes this year...
They were supposed to lose last year to Princeton or to Yale because last year, rumor said they lacked their usual stronghold of talent...
...front-page headlines. Not since Ronald Reagan fired striking air-traffic controllers in 1981, which put unions on the defensive for the rest of the decade, have the stakes seemed so high in a labor struggle. "This is happening in New York City, which traditionally has been a union stronghold," says Philip Mattera, author of Prosperity Lost, a study of worker setbacks in the 1980s. "If the unions can be broken in New York City, that's going to be felt throughout the country...
...even if Silber is elected and continues the traditional Democratic stronghold on the governorship, Tsongas said, he is far enough removed from the political "circus" in Massachusetts that he would be able to institute widespread changes without losing key support...
...country's 15 years of civil war have promised to disband their forces and transform themselves into political parties. The pro-Iranian Hizballah, a Shi'ite extremist group that is thought to hold most of the Western hostages in Lebanon, feels threatened by the recent Syrian deployment in its stronghold, Beirut's southern suburbs. But given the importance Damascus attaches to its relations with Iran, especially in the midst of the effort to isolate Iraq, the Syrians are unlikely to turn on Hizballah yet. Last week Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa dampened speculation that some of the British captives...