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...perhaps, the short-lived love interest should have done the job. Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a small-town girl who would rather be in California. She saves Halsey from a premature demise, only to be left in a difficult "bind" by him later in the film. With the additional suffering incurred by a woefully underdeveloped romantic relationship, Nash would be acquited of murder by a jury of her audience in the name of good taste. Leigh may be soon upstaging Jamie Lee Curtis as a queen of B-rate cinema, at least in terms of frequency of appearence therein...
...former colleagues and I value another type of legitimacy--the legitimacy that flows from tradition. For two decades, a succession of students have worked hard to write pieces, to edit them well, to bind them together attractively, and to get enough money to print their product. Twice a year, they have run a comp and recruited new members. Every December, under the guidance of a charter, they have elected new officers and thereby assured the survival of their legacy...
...federal aid to state and local governments. Faced with that austerity, towns are looking for new ways to reduce their spending. Says Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, whose city saves money by hiring companies to perform such services as street sweeping and landfill management: "We're all in a fiscal bind right now, exacerbated by federal cuts and GrammRudman, and it is not going to get better. To a greater degree than ever before, cities are dependent upon their own resources, and they're going to have to be very innovative about ways to cut costs...
Though whittling down Big Government has been a favorite cause of Ronald Reagan's, Gramm-Rudman leaves the President in an awkward bind. By his own measure, his two greatest achievements since taking office have been building up America's defenses and cutting taxes. Yet Gramm-Rudman is all but certain to force him to cut defense spending or raise taxes, or both...
BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY allows each of its schools autonomy over disciplinary proceedings, the CRR appears to have found itself in quite a bind...