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...Khomeini's revolution was aimed to a large extent at restoration, a re-establishment of the Islamic spirituality and law that had been, so the faithful believed, desecrated by the Shah's modernizations and the widespread, profound corruption of everyday life. Iranians were caught in an intolerable bind: their daily routines were elaborately oppressed by a stupid, corrupt bureaucracy, and yet everything in Iran (costs, salaries, the pace of change) was moving at ungodly speeds. Eastern European official stolidity was impossibly combined with Western velocity...
...wells to pump more than 2.3 million bbl. of oil and gas a day (up from 1.5 million bbl. now) for the rest of his term, which ends in 1982. Thus Mexico will not be able to do much to help the U.S. out of its present energy bind...
...Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen of country music make a perfect pair. Deadpans Burnett: "I trim my eyelashes and bind myself every morning so that people can tell us apart...
...women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields, 58, a widow ("someone who always thought of myself as Mrs. Arthur Shields"), Sommers organized the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers in 1975 and traveled around the country to focus interest...
...Ties That Bind...