Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though whittling down Big Government has been a favorite cause of Ronald Reagan's, Gramm-Rudman leaves the President in an awkward bind. By his own measure, his two greatest achievements since taking office have been building up America's defenses and cutting taxes. Yet Gramm-Rudman is all but certain to force him to cut defense spending or raise taxes, or both...
BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY allows each of its schools autonomy over disciplinary proceedings, the CRR appears to have found itself in quite a bind...
...letter last week to his colleagues announcing his resignation, Bator wrote, "I am, for better or for worse, a child of the Harvard Law School, and the ties of kinship that bind me to the institution are unbreakable...
...last week's reversal, Appeals Court Judge Anthony Kennedy wrote that Washington "has not been shown to have been motivated by impermissible sex- based considerations in setting salaries." He also ruled that "a study which indicates a particular wage structure might be more equitable should not categorically bind the employer who commissioned...
...expert. He ordered me to follow events in the area. Analysts in the Middle East Department were worried. "Things are bad," one of them told me early in 1971, referring to the fact that the Egyptians were stalling Moscow on concluding a long-sought treaty of friendship designed to bind Cairo firmly into an alliance. A friend told me, "Opinions are beginning to solidify in the leadership that we have to be rid of (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat. Sadat is a scoundrel. The only problem is that we don't have a really strong figure to take over from...