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...steps to prevent inflation by boosting interest rates. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, trying to stand tall a day after the dollar sank to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen, vowed action if needed to bolster the greenback. Economists said the two men are in a bind: allow the dollar to fall further, and potentially provoking inflation, or raise interest rates and dampen U.S. economic growth...
Students rejected the fee hike in the second referendum, which was conducted by outside mediators. But council members said not enough students voted to bind council members to the outcome...
...bitch, she was a proper bitch, a polite bitch--the photos in The Crimson always showed her in demure, ladylike poses [see photo, right]. But on the council that Maya Prabhu describes, the tension between aggressive and feminine could put her in a bind. While she tried to navigate her goals through the council's hierarchy, Prabhu ran up against her appearance, demeanor, and gender--learning, for example, that she had won a secret "contest" for being the council's "sexiest and classiest dresser...
...such a different world now.It's almost apples and oranges."Crimson File PhotoTop: Soldiers march in Boston's 1969Veterans' Day parade. Bottom: Students during lastyear's Commencement hold pink balloons reading'Lift the Ban,' a reference to the military'sformer policy on gays.CrimsonMelody A. LeeTies That Bind: Harvard and ROTC...
...think twenty-one percent of thestudent body should be able to bind an institutionthat takes its authority from more than twenty-onepercent of the students," Beys said...