Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...objections put Walzer in a double-bind: Because behavioral problems have never been definitively linked to the XYY karyotype, it is wrong to create delusory fears on the part of the XYY parents by telling them too much. Yet because such behavioral problems are on the minds of the researchers, the scientists should be honest to their subjects about the investigation...
...word and the seat of his pants, Theroux has paid nostalgic homage to the pre-jet era, when men optimistically hoped to bind up the world with bands of steel. He also offers a reminder of how close they came to succeeding. If people rarely have the time, inclination or endurance to travel this way any more, Theroux suggests, the loss is theirs. To see the world slowly is to see oneself clearly. "After all," he concludes, "the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home...
When I first saw the cover, a tear ran down my cheek. With the help of the American people, Gerald Ford will lift this country out of its bind and once again instill the love of democracy in the hearts of Americans everywhere...
...other hand, it is expected to provide all kinds of public services-many of them money losing-that Americans have depended on for generations, and still depend on today. "The Postal Service," says the law, "shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Yet "postal rates and fees shall provide sufficient revenues so that the total estimated income and appropriations to the Postal Service will equal, as nearly as practicable, total estimated costs of the Postal Service." The past four...
...financial bind has loosened. Despite howls from customers, regulators are permitting bigger rate increases more rapidly. During this year's first quarter, investor-owned utilities won approval for hikes totaling $1 billion a year, almost half as much as they got during all of 1974. Interest rates have come down to about 9.5% on good-quality bond issues by utilities and even less on their bank loans. Power demand is rising again, though it is only 2% ahead of last year's rate. A group of 75 utilities that recorded an aggregate profit increase of only 3% during...