Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been to skip over that period of time as rapidly as possible. To Edward's credit, he half way succeeds in keeping audience interest by planting some notable jokes that reach fruition in the hospital scene. However, Edwards indulges in presenting the difficulties caused by Rob's bigamous bind. By this point in the film, any audience has either adequately suspended its belief or walked...
...angers bank customers and can impose hardships. Says Walter Dartland, a Dade County, Fla., consumer advocate: "Students who get a check from their folks back in Iowa, for example, might have to wait two to three weeks before they can use the money. That puts them in a real bind...
...into crushers last week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca, a grower near Fresno. "We're in a grape depression." While consumers are savoring the lowest wine prices in years, some growers are being pushed close to bankruptcy...
...American psyche. The idea of manifest destiny carried both to a bellicose extreme; Franklin Roosevelt, when he insisted that the nation had nothing to fear but fear itself, expressed the linkage beautifully. Patriotic trappings took on particular importance in a vast, heterogeneous nation with hardly any history to bind its citizens, and the pioneeer spirit is necessarily hopeful...
...this respect, Ferraro seemed at least as success ful as a previous vice-presidential candidate in a bind. Eight presidential elections ago, a young Republican Senator named Richard Nixon went on TV to justify his receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week...