Word: binding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deposit comes due. If all that money is not reinvested, the company may find itself in serious trouble. Said a senior Treasury Department official last week: "We're watching it very, very closely. We're deeply concerned." F.C.A. is not alone among S & Ls in a bind. Since the beginning of the year, Government regulators have forced nine failing S & Ls to merge with larger institutions...
...when Soviet shoppers see a line forming, they simply join it, assuming that some scarce item is about to be offered for sale. A study published by Pravda calculates that Soviet citizens waste 37 billion hours a year standing in line to buy food and other basic necessities. To bind an entire people to that kind of life is to do a little of the work of the Gulag in a different style...
That would certainly put Mondale in a bind. Struggling to keep his own running-mate options open, he continued to hold his well-publicized Veepstakes interviews...
Seeing no easy way out of his bind, Alfonsín made an unorthodox move. Without reaching an agreement with the IMF negotiators in Buenos Aires, Alfonsín sent his own economic plan to IMF headquarters in Washington in a direct plea to Managing Director Jacques de Larosière and the fund's 22-member executive board. The plan calls for Argentine workers to receive 6% to 8% wage hikes this year on top of whatever increases they need to keep pace with inflation. IMF economists have argued that such a policy could cause Argentina...
...decisions gave an unfortunate boost to protectionism and put President Reagan in an election-year bind. Sweeping restrictions would be against his own free-market principles, but a vote against steel and copper quotas could hurt at the polls. New import quotas could also cause problems abroad. Chile and Canada, the two largest U.S. suppliers of copper, lobbied strongly against cutbacks. Steel producers like Mexico and Brazil have already announced voluntary restraints on their exports to the U.S., and further reductions would aggravate their debt woes...