Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genoa's Cardinal Siri may wind up with the largest single bloc of votes on the first ballot at the new conclave, though he will almost certainly go no further. The Genoese arch bishop is a known foe of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council ("They will never bind us," he once said loftily of its pronouncements), and traditionalists who sympathize with his position have apparently supported him only as a gesture of conservative opposition. But Siri can not hope to add the additional 50 or so votes needed for election. This time Siri's less strident supporters...
...ambivalent about his SQ. He knows with the intuitive self-consciousness of the upwardly mobile that occupation, education, ethnic background and the concepts of social identity and life-style also count. Of course money talks. Indeed it whistles, hums and croons through the tangled switchboard of class lines that bind the conflicting emotions most Americans have about their place in an open, competitive society. What money says is "This way to the good life," not good as in Plato, but good as in "a good house in a good neighborhood." Beyond that basic aspiration lies the ubiquitous advertised vision...
...residents vigorously protested until about a month ago. The gym should be finished by next spring. Take 2--Recombinant DNA research. Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci successfully led the fight to ban the controversial work for five months in 1976. That put both MIT and Harvard in a bind, and caused lots of tensions when work in other super-security P-3 facilities around the country began producing results. MIT opened its laboratories last year, and Harvard's should be finished in about a month. Welcome to Harvard...
Selection of Nobre da Costa was Eanes' way out of the bind bestowed on him by Soares, whose party holds 102 seats in Portugal's fractious 263-member parliament. Eanes fired Soares when the fragile governing coalition came apart as a result of restiveness on the part of the supporting Social Democratic Center Party, a more conservative-leaning group than the Socialists. Soares did not want to go. As leader of the largest single parliamentary bloc, he felt that Eanes would have to call him back to mediate the standoff resulting from his departure, or else call elections...
...voters' tax-cut message places the President in something of a bind. If he cuts taxes heavily without slashing spending, he risks adding to inflation. He has already modified a proposed $25 billion income tax cut, and a shaky deal seemed to be shaping up on Capitol Hill last week for a less inflationary $15 billion reduction. Even so, the projected federal deficit would still be $53 billion, give or take a few billion, and the President declared last week: "Someone has got to hold the line on the budget, and I am determined to do so." To show that...