Word: binde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many blacks had migrated from the South. Places like Cleveland and Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...
...social-issue liberals the way Roe itself energized conservatives 16 years ago. From 1973 until recently, abortion mattered a lot more to the antis than to the pros; that is already starting to change. The new politics of abortion will also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind Democrats have been in more often in recent years: trapped between the demands of a vocal interest group at the core of their party and the preferences of the moderate voters whose support they need. They cannot abandon the human-life amendment without hell to pay. Now that it matters...
...patterned after the Eastern rites within the Catholic Church. He seeks to combine "Baptist practices with the beauty and tradition of the Catholic faith." As a young Catholic in North Carolina, Stallings often attended an enthusiastic black Baptist church with his grandmother. Says he: "The church is failing to bind together the church with the needs and aspirations of African Americans...
...ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...
...rhinoviruses, the culprits responsible for about half of all colds. Now scientists may have the key to warding off the sniffles. Reporting in the journal Cell last week, two separate research teams announced the discovery of a cell molecule to which rhinoviruses attach themselves. When the cold viruses bind to the molecule, known as the ICAM-1 receptor, they infect the cell...