Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like President Truman and President Lincoln before him, I found on my desk, where the buck stops, the urgent problem of how to bind up the nation's wounds. And I intend to do that...
...said that his thinking had been shaped in part by the views of his children and those of former Defense Secretary and Close Friend Melvin Laird, who had unsuccessfully tried to get Nixon to modify his hard-line stance. More over, Ford had concluded that his pledge to bind up the nation's wounds required a new approach. He explained: "You can't talk about healing unless you're going to use it in the broadest context." His choice of audience was equally deliberate. Said Ford: "I thought that the right audience would be an audience that...
Early on, Ford called in his staff -what there is of it-for a bull session. "I really want to bind up the wounds," he said. "If I'm going to do that, then I've got to reach those kids who dodged the draft or deserted. I'm not for unlimited amnesty. Deserters can't go home scot free when the kid next door might have been killed in Viet Nam. Can't we fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford...
Rent control is a prime bread and butter issue in Cambridge. The city's landlords are in a bind: The University and white-collar research and development firms are bringing in a lot of middle-and upper-middle-income families. If rent control were removed, these newcomers could bid up the price of housing and force out the lower-income groups. It is this kind of change in Cambridge's neighborhoods that Councilor Graham is fighting with all the supporters she can turn out at protest meetings...
...bind, caught in the middle: a Southerner at Harvard, and a Harvard student in the South. But I was at least forced out of my blind exclusion of Harvard and acceptance of everything I thought the South had, and I began the process of trying to figure out some way to combine the two. I began to see that people from New York weren't all alike--they became, in fact, my best friends--and that a lot of what they criticized about the South was true...