Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS strain of change against order, of time against space, Mizoguchi's camera motions occupy a special place. They too transform the relationships that bind people, but transform them spatially and visibly, not as a cut slicing them apart and then re-confronting them in an artificial drama. People in his compositions are points set a certain way in space; an emotion sets the camera in motion and the points twist around gradually, with all the anguish of a process occurring within reality, to a new dynamic which is again immediately transformed...
...American scientific fantasy was caught in a bind. Its aversion to growing technology and fear of nuclear warfare was matched only by its aversions to the Russians. It was Sputnik that tilted the balance in favor of technological advancement, but only for as long as it took to outdo the Russians in space and win all that propaganda value...
PEACE TREATY. Israel wants a contractual arrangement that would bind the sides firmly. The Arabs are not anxious to be signatories to a formal peace treaty...
...Hole. At Krupp, Vogelsang has shown what can be accomplished when an outsider slips into a family firm and snips the ties that bind it to traditions. Taking charge in 1968, he quickly changed the paternalistic policy of never laying off a "Kruppianer" and never closing down a branch. He reduced the number of divisions from 23 to 14, pared the work force from 90,400 to 79,500, and sold off holdings in low-yield properties, including a hotel and department store in Essen, the Krupps' soot-filled home city. The Krupp truck plant, which lost...
Both the Penn Central debacle and the general corporate cash bind raised concern about the precarious condition of the commercial-paper market (see following story). Like Penn Central, many companies have been using short-term borrowings in that market to finance long-term projects, a classic formula for disaster. Now corporations with anything less than top credit ratings will find increasing difficulty in selling their own notes and bonds, even to refinance existing debts...