Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Baby Boomers are as diverse as members of any other generation, especially because theirs ranges in age from 40 down to 22, Thomas believes there are strong ties that bind, chiefly rock 'n' roll and the changing role of women. Says he: "My first editor at TIME was a woman. Before that, my boss on the Harvard Crimson was a woman. At law school, one-third of my class was female. In fact, I met my wife in civil-procedure class." Had he belonged to the older generation, Thomas might have really believed that, as Rocker Cyndi Lauper says...
More and more debtors are deciding that the only way out of their bind is to declare personal bankruptcy. A law that became effective in October 1979 made the process much less onerous than before. No longer, for example, do borrowers have to give up their homes and cars to gain protection from creditors. As a result of the new rules, the number of bankruptcies jumped from 179,112 in 1978 to 523,825 in 1981. While the filings predictably declined after the economic recovery got under way in 1983, they have recently been on the rise again. Last year...
...perhaps, the short-lived love interest should have done the job. Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a small-town girl who would rather be in California. She saves Halsey from a premature demise, only to be left in a difficult "bind" by him later in the film. With the additional suffering incurred by a woefully underdeveloped romantic relationship, Nash would be acquited of murder by a jury of her audience in the name of good taste. Leigh may be soon upstaging Jamie Lee Curtis as a queen of B-rate cinema, at least in terms of frequency of appearence therein...
...former colleagues and I value another type of legitimacy--the legitimacy that flows from tradition. For two decades, a succession of students have worked hard to write pieces, to edit them well, to bind them together attractively, and to get enough money to print their product. Twice a year, they have run a comp and recruited new members. Every December, under the guidance of a charter, they have elected new officers and thereby assured the survival of their legacy...
...federal aid to state and local governments. Faced with that austerity, towns are looking for new ways to reduce their spending. Says Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, whose city saves money by hiring companies to perform such services as street sweeping and landfill management: "We're all in a fiscal bind right now, exacerbated by federal cuts and GrammRudman, and it is not going to get better. To a greater degree than ever before, cities are dependent upon their own resources, and they're going to have to be very innovative about ways to cut costs...