Those attempting to improve the human lot worried that they themselves could be in the grip of internal cant.

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Extending Mr. Rifi's term would be a symbolic gesture to ease the fears of Sunnis in Lebanon and keep their grip on the internal security apparatus.

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Ohio's most crippling handicap may be that its politicians -- and thus its employers -- are still in the grip of such industrial unions as the United Auto Workers.

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But as deflation tightens its grip and the fear of unemployment in the state sector mounts, it may be hard to turn that understanding into policy.

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There are, yet again, serious questions to be asked about those managers at the top who seem unable to get a grip of the NHS in Lothian.

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It would be a very positive irony if this decade of economic depression should prove the era in which science at last broke the clammy grip of psychic depression.

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