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...nice to come and help us out in a bind this year,” Nelson said. “We just will take whatever she can give...
...company level. Germany's trade unions have staunchly resisted efforts to rewrite labor laws on these matters. Schröder's refusal to address these structural problems, says Mayer, "shows that the government is not capable of taking on the unions." And therein lies Schröder's bind. According to the Forsa polling institute, the approval rating for Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd) has fallen to a dismal 31% from 35% since January, while the cdu's has increased from 37% to 44% over the same period. With national elections 18 months away...
...injured. A Blow to Progress LEBANON The anti-Syrian opposition dismissed President Emile Lahoud's call for them to enter talks with loyalist factions, which came after a car bomb in Beirut injured 11 people, boosting fears of renewed bloodshed as Syrian troops start to withdraw. The Ties That Bind CHINA Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian condemned as a "law of aggression" Beijing's new antisecession legislation, which permits the use of "nonpeaceful means" against Taiwan if the island moves toward formal independence from the mainland. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE... A Piste of One's Own Lee Kun-hee, chairman...
Like all young moms in Wichita, Kans., in the late 1970s, Paula Rader had every reason to be afraid. A killer was on the loose. He was known as BTK--for "bind them, torture them, kill them," from a note sent to the local newspaper after he murdered four members of the Otero family in 1974. By 1979, when Paula's daughter Kerri was born and her son Brian was 4, BTK had killed three more female victims. But years later, BTK would send the cops a photocopy of a book cover with the adage "Never kill anyone you know...
...small molecule could be induced to bind to that pocket, it would inhibit the shape transformation the virus would need to undergo in order to infect target cells...