Word: binding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very much in the center," he said. His most immediate problem, he explained, would be to renegotiate the country's $1.5 billion debt and deal with the country's virtual bankruptcy. As to warnings of continued violence, he expressed optimism that he would be able to bind the nation's wounds "Once the decision has been made." he said, "the people who are the losers usually move out of the way because they don't have anything to fight for any more...
...week's end Administration officials reported that Iran was considering an initial release of up to 40 hostages, with the others to be held pending a final settlement of the U.S.-Iran dispute. But such a partial liberation would put Carter in a political bind at home-especially if the remaining hostages were subjected to trials. Washington thus sent word to Tehran insisting on the release of all the Americans at the same time...
...State Department official. Frazier Meade, country director for Philippine Affairs, says the U.S. would do best "to avoid the competition between Aquino and Marcos." And they are not an inhuman lot down at State; privately, one source conceded when asked about martial law, "We're caught in a real bind...
...Africa is in a real bind," the 40-year-old reporter says. "Africa says, 'Let us solve our own problems,' but whenever there's a real problem, the first thing Africa does is shout for guns or money. Many of these countries are living off the international dole...
Reagan was triply delighted by the league's decision: it took the spotlight off his recent series of gaffes, it put Carter in a bind, and it gave a boost to Anderson. Like Carter's, Reagan's aides are convinced Anderson hurts the President more than their man. When New York State's Liberal Party last week endorsed Anderson and thus put him on the ballot where he could coax more votes from Carter, one Reagan aide was so pleased that he sent Anderson Strategist David Garth a bottle of champagne to celebrate...