Word: stranglehold
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...Pull the Plug The stranglehold that TV, video games and the Internet have on kids can seem unbreakable. But parents, who are used to laying down the law when it comes to drinking, drugs and smoking, need to be, well, parents. Set limits for screen time and make physical activity mandatory. Elevate fitness to a priority...
...order to overhaul its one point deficit, four wins in the singles was the bare necessity for the Crimson. Unfortunately for Harvard, Brown continued their stranglehold on the game with game-winning performances on the opposite ends of the courts. Heavy losses for the Crimson at No. 5 and No. 6—1-6, 0-6 and 4-6, 1-6 respectively—dented Harvard’s hopes for revival, while an absorbing encounter at No. 1 saw junior Laura Peterzan lose 5-7, 2-6 at the hands of in-form opponent Bianca Aboubakare...
...opposite direction. “My grandfather was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he migrated to Mexico looking for his American dream,” said Fox, drawing laughs. Fox, a former Coca-Cola executive and member of the center-right National Action Party (PAN), broke the 72-year stranglehold of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on Mexico when he was elected in 2000. He was succeeded in 2007 by fellow PAN-member Felipe Calderón, a graduate of the Kennedy School. Fox said that Calderón, who spoke at the Forum in February...
...expect our libraries to do it—with all the negative consequences that I have mentioned. The motion before the FAS provides a way to realign the means of communication in a way that will favor learning. It will be a first step toward freeing scholarship from the stranglehold of commercial publishers by making it freely available through our own university repository. Instead of being the passive victims of the system, we can seize the initiative and take charge of it. Although this initiative is being submitted to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it concerns all the faculties...
...candidates. Though federal funding may not be enough to keep pace with Clinton and Obama, it would easily be enough to make the Libertarian candidate a household name. Part of the problem with building up confidence in third parties is that the two major parties have a stranglehold on the media, and it is in their self-interest to advance the view that third parties are not worth a rational person’s time. Leading up to the 2000 election, Democrats chanted to would-be Green Party supporters the refrain that a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote...