Word: binding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ties That Bind. This practice firing, executed last week under condition EWO (Emergency War Operations) by the ist Strategic Aerospace Division of the Strategic Air Command, is a rarity; Atlases, even without warheads, cost nearly a million dollars apiece and are not to be treated casually. Yet in an age when an intercontinental thermonuclear strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens...
...Price Alone. This put Ferkauf in a two-way bind. He had expanded too fast on a small capital base-four big new branches in 1957 alone-and department stores were beginning to win back business from him. His after-tax profits on invested capital plunged from 29% in 1956 to 9% in 1958. (Currently, they stand at 23%.) Fighting back, Ferkauf determined to challenge the department stores in the place where they were strongest. This meant getting into service, style-and soft goods...
...Seitz and Princeton's Eugene P. Wigner devised a method for calculating the forces that bind atoms together in a metal, an application of new theory to solid-state physics. Later, Seitz wrote The Modern Theory of Solids, the first comprehensive survey of solid-state physics, and made significant contribution to the development of such solid-state devices as transistors...
...have developed distinct personalities of their own, with much deeper differences than a palm tree or a peep show might suggest. Of them all, five cities, spread from coast to coast and north to south, reflect both the endless variety of metropolitan America and the ties that bind the cities of the U.S. together, for better or for worse, in their common problems and strivings...
...past, however, there will be no strict College ruling. Each Master has complete control over his House, and organizations will be required to obtain his permission for their projects. The decisions reached at the Masters' meetings are informal attempts to coordinate House policies, but do not bind the Masters to any course of action...