Word: binde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their sexual intercourse. These relationships describe an unhealthy attitude toward sex which they think is not as fulfilling as anticipated. For example, in the case of the soldier and parlour maid, he virtually has to rape her after they meet at a cafe. The couple really has nothing to bind them except passion which becomes the common bond uniting all the scenes...
...signal political success for bilingualism has been won at the U.S. Department of Education. After the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that Chinese-speaking students were entitled to some instruction in a language they could understand, the DOE issued "informal" rules that now bind more than 400 school districts. Immersion in English, even rapid transition to English, does not satisfy the DOE; the rules compel school systems to offer a full curriculum to any group of 20 or more students who share a foreign language. The DOE rules have survived three presidencies, although Jesse Soriano, director of the Reagan Administration...
...FORTUNE 500 companies now have some sort of stress-management program. Many are restricted to top executives, though studies have shown that the most stressed workers are in middle management. In addition to facing the pressures of climbing the corporate ladder, these workers are caught in a perilous bind: lots of responsibility but little control. Those who have surmounted these obstacles and made it to the top "have the fewest problems," says Dr. Gilbeart Ceilings, corporate medical director of New York Telephone...
...help industry prepare itself for the changes it must face in the New Economy would be to bring that deficit down so that long-term interest rates, now hovering around 12%, can fall. If rates do not drop, the recovery may stall. That puts Congress in a bind. To provide much needed funds for education and training, it will have to cut other spending or raise taxes or both...
Although all three acknowledge that getting along together on a team has been a major part of their Harvard experience. Grossman probably has the strongest sense of the ties that bind the trio...