Academia has maintained a death grip on this area for decades and for good reason.

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Just as the tax cut was about to expire, Republicans and Democrats locked themselves in their usual fiscal death grip.

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The solutions offered to date by Apple for dealing with the so-called "death grip" malfunction-such as holding the device differently, or buying a cover for it-seem to be insufficient.

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Or would that be a Vulcan death grip?

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It was a death grip for the fish.

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Very nice, Sammy, but you better be careful playing with fire here, as we've found it pretty easy to death grip Galaxy S phones like the Captivate into losing a fair bit of signal.

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Serious damage would be done to the balance inherent in our tripartite form of government, in which no single branch (executive, legislative or judicial) is supposed to exert a death grip, or even a choke-hold, on any other.

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In any case, this thought applied to any reasonably constructed index of asset prices reveals that the Federal Reserve is barely on the easy side of neutral, and the European Central Bank has Europe in a death grip.

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On a more serious front, New York billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been hopping around the country lending his support to Democrats and Republicans with a moderate streak, convinced they hold the key to breaking the death grip of the partisans.

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Schumer (D-NY) urged the device's maker, Apple, on Thursday to provide fresh answers about the source of the so-called "death grip" glitch that causes poor reception, and called for a fix to be identified and provided free of charge to existing customers.

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In the past few years, it lost the death-grip it once had on the stock market.

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So, what happened when the computers released their death-grip on stocks?

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