Word: vising
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...mark. In Orange, Mayor Jacques Bompard, 54, caused a scandal last summer when he censored a list of books ordered by the municipal library, blackballing "leftist" writers in favor of far-right authors. Marignane's mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat this month, forbade organizers of the local book fair to give a literary award to Jewish writer Marek Halter, claiming his work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front...
...constitutional violation" has occurred. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor added that the innocence standard must be "extraordinarily high" so federal courts won't be "deluged with frivolous claims." As early as 1986, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall complained that this trend left death-row petitioners in "an increasingly pernicious vise grip...
Cramer, re-elected with only a 1% margin in 1994, has felt the pinch of the Republican vise and reined in some of his liberal tendencies. Though the g.o.p. has targeted Cramer as vulnerable, it still must contend with his high-achieving freshman year: construction of a superhighway (the "corridor of prosperity"); funding for the Keller Memorial Bridge; and battling to preserve weather-radar coverage for northern Alabama and a strong space program...
...company does put workers inside what Olson bluntly calls the "Toyota vise." He describes his Japanese employer as "an immensely stubborn, universally tenacious company. There's this hatred of waste, and [you're] continually driving to get more for less. You're never happy. You're never allowed to be satisfied. Attacks and setbacks are only used as learning exercises...
...detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...