Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into Hilles Bind them...
Whether or not Matthiessen realizes he is caught in this bind of his own making is unclear. He does, however, know that though he walked away from Crystal mountain a somewhat changed person he didn't walk away a transformed man, as he set out to do. He knows that the snow leopard confounded...
...part of the bill increasing the national debt limit to $830 billion from $798 billion. In place of the G.O.P. measure, the Democrats substituted a diluted rider that requires congressional budget committees to draw up a balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. But the amendment does not bind Congress to adopt the committees' recommendations. Complained Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole: "This is a hoax...
...search of ways to beat the oil-import bind, some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced...
Still another couple, Nick (Michael Stroud) and Jan (Polly Adams), have accepted an invitation to the party, but Nick has suffered an agonizing back-muscle bind. The mutual intention of all three couples is to sleep peaceably in the three separate bedrooms that span the stage. It is not to be, to the playgoers' high manic hilarity...