Word: binding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely doing something that is praised in every other line of endeavor? Where technological ability has far exceeded the wisdom to use technology in the common interest, is it cause for wonder that medicine concentrates on the esoteric rather than the mundane? You are caught in a peculiar bind. You think that physicians should be better than other people (perhaps they should), and then you want to make them better by placing them under the control of society, which, from the original premise, is not as good as they...
Basically, Innis is more prepared to cut all ties with whites than Farmer. Farmer began his civil rights work with whites, married a white woman, has influence with Congress and the Administration, and generally likes whites. The new popularity of black separatism has put him into a bind. He no longer thinks of integration as a feasible goal, but for personal and public reasons he would never accept segregation and repudiate the work of 26 years of his life...
...even after this immense military mortgage is taken into account, the financial bind should begin to ease in 1971. If Nixon chooses to keep taxes at present levels-without the surtax-he will enjoy the benefit of "a fiscal dividend." This dividend is created by the automatic rise in federal revenues that accompanies the economy's growth; automatic, that is, so long as the economy does grow, for recessions have not yet become unconstitutional. If the gross national product continues to advance at a rate of an average 6-7% annually, tax revenues will increase faster than federal expenses...
...free the Pueblo crew. But whether the Faculty actually overturned the Ad Board or merely amended its recommendation with an innovation the board could not have proposed itself is beside the point, College administrators (like Grayson Kirk) forced to handle student discipline by themselves are in a hopeless bind because they do not have the authority to make their decisions stick. Here the Faculty has the final power to fix punishments and yesterday its members rightly decided by a two to one margin that the Administration formula was too barsh...
...that he could not remain bureau chief under these circumstances; Sulzberger responded by making Reston an associate editor, but allowed him to choose Tom Wicker as his successor. With an "awareness of corporate whimsy, his knowledge of how executive wives can sometimes build the bridges that can more tightly bind their husbands," Reston suggested that the Wickers accompany the Sulzbergers on a month's visit to Europe. According to Talese's rather far-fetched account, Reston was betting that the trip would lay the foundation for a friendship that would eventually enable Wicker to maintain most...