Word: binding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the time, 46 years, that has soldered Norman and Ethel Thayer to each other, with complementary quirks and habits, tolerance and humor, love and concern. The time it takes to bind wounds the generations can inflict on each other?Norman and his daughter, Henry and his Jane. The time Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn have taken to travel their separate roads to this special union. The time on the screen that displays the deceptively easy effects of two actors, two half-centuries committed to getting it right in the theater and the movies. It is about this time?now?...
...Faculty Council should reject any proposal for pre-registration that could bind students to courses chosen before terms begin. Certainly the College could poll students on their probable course choices ahead of time; more efficient assignment of classrooms and allocation of section leaders can only help undergraduates, albeit indirectly. But provisions for course changes that entail financial penalties, cumbersome paperwork, or notations on a transcript that a student had switched courses must not be included. And the council should solicit student opinion before weighing any alternative...
...Rostenkowski has already warned the Administration that his committee will not take up new "consumer taxes" this session. Speaker of the House Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts last week endorsed the tough stand, saying that Democrats would not help the Administration out of its budget bind until the President admitted that his program was a failure...
Hedding added that people can overcome these fears, saying, "Compassion, love, kindness and understanding are the things that can bind the human race together...
After all, there are few ties besides ideology that bind the CCA and the leftist tenant movement. One is predominantly rich and white; the other includes many lower and middle income residents, and many Blacks and Hispanics. One is fashionable; the other isn't. (Abt, dressed to the nines, looked distinctly out of place amid the blue jeans that dominated the tenant forum.) And when the CCA is liberal, it is because its members are looking out for others. The tenants will stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though...