Word: bindingly
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...being the BTK serial killer, linked to at least eight murders in the Wichita area in the 1970s and '80s; in Park City, Kans. The killer, who bragged of his crimes in letters to Wichita media in the late '70s and suggested his nickname (the initials stand for "bind, torture, kill"), had not been heard from for 25 years when he resurfaced last March with a letter to the Wichita Eagle, taking responsibility for a 1986 killing...
That leaves Frist in a bit of a bind. Bush's ambitious agenda for '05 is laden with issues that require bipartisan support, such as overhauling Social Security and medical-malpractice laws. But if Frist wants the top half of the '08 ticket, he will need backing from religious conservatives, who have explicitly tied their support to his efforts to get Bush's judges confirmed. "It is the ultimate test," evangelist Pat Robertson said last week at the National Press Club. "[Frist] cannot be a leader and allow Democrats to do what they did in the last session...
...North's recent announcement does put South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most...
...most lasting image of the Hasty Pudding, the photograph of the Pudding members kissing the Woman of the Year’s cheeks, encapsulates the situation. The Pudding members and the celebrity are captured together in public, but the personal bonds forged behind the scenes are the ties that bind...
...declaration of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, relations between the two sides have reached their warmest level in years--owing in large part to Abbas' willingness to confront the violence that wreaked havoc on Palestinian society under Yasser Arafat. But Abbas is in an excruciating bind. While he needs to move fast to accommodate Israeli demands, he also risks reprisals from his own people that could cost him his job and very possibly his life. No sooner had Abbas agreed to a cease-fire last Tuesday than Palestinian militants staged two brazen attacks. First they fired mortars...