Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football draft, where a player retains some competitive bargaining power through rival leagues, he can either like it or lump it. And where a pro football player can play out a year's option and then be free to deal for himself, the baseball draft could theoretically bind a player to one team for life...
...whom were against the bill, happened to be away from Parliament when the vote was taken-possibly at the movies. The bill now goes to the Senate, where the Christian Democrats, Monarchists and neo-Fascists have 150 out of 320 seats, and Premier Moro is in a double bind. If the bill becomes law, Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni may carry out his threat to walk out of the coalition and bring down the government. If Moro amends the amendment, back to the bill's original text, he will offend the Vatican...
...never an integrationist. Before the war he had opposed slavery, but he had wanted to colonize the slaves in Africa rather than to liberate them in America. He never conceived of Negroes as equal, fully capable participants in American society. His greatest concern after the war was indeed to bind up the nation's wounds through clemency for the South. he also intended to revive Whig strength by restoring the political prominence of the upper economic classes of the Confederacy. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, therefore, was to grant pardons to most rebels, quickly install white Southerners in the state...
Only one speaker made what could be described as sense. Guest Reginald Maudling, the Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary, argued in favor of standing by Britain and her allies, because "an individual cannot exist outside the complex of rights and duties that bind us all together. By fighting for Queen and country we fight for mankind." To his great astonishment, Maudling received a huge ovation, and the students defeated the resolution by a vote...
...Groucho. With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist controls and fleeting flirtations with capitalism. The results have not been happy. Yugoslavia's economy has been in almost constant chaos, punctuated by frequent crises of inflation, deflation and devaluation. Now it is in another economic bind. Unemployment is rising; the country is hard-pressed to meet a $1.3 billion foreign debt coming due this year, and Josip Broz Tito, the durable dictator, admitted recently that some factories are operating at only 40% to 50% of capacity. The source of these headaches is an ailment more frequently...