Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teaching fellow is placed in what has become an ever-tightening bind of bearing the lion's share of the University's real work and trying to finish his or her own research in the hope of landing a position as an academic journey man and gaining a measure of self-respect. Born out of administrative financial opportunism and disregard of the needs of the individuals invovled, the graduate school and teaching fellow programs have been established with financial security as a permanent feature...
...peace settlement at least has ended the war's most brutal aspects. When Congress eventually cuts off the aid which props up the Thieu regime, the Vietnamese can bind up their wounds and follow their dreams in developing their society. Justice has been sidetracked temporarily in Chile, but justice is winning in Vietnam, and the rest of us have learned something about the impregnability of the human spirit...
...sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when she gets what she wants she finds it isn't what she needs. But she knows her own mind enough to know that she's in a bind...
...Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian state would be far better than for the West Bank to fall again to the control of Jordan's King Hussein - whom the Palestinian extremists despise more than any other...
...fact is that nothing in the realms of cowardice, selfishness, cant and shortsighted folly is beyond the bounds of possibility in view of what has actually happened already. The first time-the very first time-that any external strain is put on the Common Market alliance, the ties that bind its members snap. No, they do not snap; the members themselves rush forward to snap them...