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...fact is that nothing in the realms of cowardice, selfishness, cant and shortsighted folly is beyond the bounds of possibility in view of what has actually happened already. The first time-the very first time-that any external strain is put on the Common Market alliance, the ties that bind its members snap. No, they do not snap; the members themselves rush forward to snap them...
...planned treatment facilities. One such plant is a $250,000 experiment which might be extended to the whole river (via a large plant at Watertown Dam) if it succeeds in cleaning up Storrow Lagoon next summer. The plant will treat water already in the Charles with chemicals that bind with river water "to form a matrix in a fluffy kind of stuff," as Noss put it. There's some skepticism as to how well the plant will work: Sabin Lord, the engineer in charge of the lower Charles, has said he thinks the Metropolitain District Commission was sold a bill...
...MAKES SENSE for Charlie to speak in cliches, for he is a caught personality. He's caught in the social conditions which shaped him and form the landscape of the screen--but he's also caught in another kind of double bind, a more universal one. This you empathize with instinctively, and Mean Streets doesn't take long to shoot the landscape into your blood...
...treaties, such as the American NATO pledge to European partners that an attack on one is an attack on all, bind the U.S. to Israel's defense. The Israelis have not asked for one, in part out of their own self-confident, self-reliant distaste for alignment and dependence. The American tie to Israel, which is not to be found in formal treaties, surfaces more readily in presidential statements and the platforms of both political parties. American Jews are both articulate and influential, and their anxieties are deeply felt whenever Israel is in danger, but those ringing platform pledges...
...undeniably has the capability not only to maintain but also to expand its historic role as a world supplier of food-to the benefit of everybody. The present bind is all too real, but it is largely a legacy of the restrictive policies of the past. Once that legacy is shaken off, U.S. farmers can raise enough livestock, wheat and oil seeds to satisfy their fellow citizens' desire for good food at reasonable prices and meet all foreseeable foreign demand too. In a burst of optimism last week, Bud Frazier, vice president of Hennessy & Associates, a commodity brokerage firm...