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Peace imposition is war fighting. It's going in, taking on somebody and beating them. In order to use a peacekeeping force, you have to have a cease- fire. But we got ourselves into this bind by having a war start around...
...give up on welfare and instead guarantee subsistence-level jobs. Sidestepping economic issues entirely, the author mentions only the benefits of increased social equality. Everyone who wants to live will have to work. Without middle-class derision of "welfare mothers" and "welfare cheats," the ubiquity of work will bind Americans together...
...agreement will bind together three major economies -- two mature and wealthy, the third relatively poor but in the throes of rapid and profound modernization. Building upon a similar agreement between the U.S. and Canada that took effect in 1989, the expanded pact will create a $6.4 trillion megamarket of 363 million consumers. But it will also challenge the three governments with the prospect of far-reaching social dislocations. What worries politicians in all three nations is, Will the trade-off be worth...
...that the cold war is over, one can sometimes hear diplomats gently rue its passing: communism was terrible, but at least you knew where you stood. Yitzhak Rabin's first days as Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...
...flip any emotional switches. And when my half-hearted commitment to the hard sciences began to look even paler in comparison with the devotion professed by those made orgasmic by "multivariable calculus proper," and when I decided in early November that engineering sucked, I found myself in a bind...