Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Life in Unionville, Conn., sent in $278,000 that its 200 members had set aside for the construction of a new chapel. Patricia Bear, 52, a divorcee who lives in a mobile home in Denison, Texas, is out $46,000. Says she: "I'm in a terrible financial bind. I sent them my life savings, but evidently they are a bunch of crooks...
...rambling interview published in the mass-circulation Buenos Aires Clarin, Galtieri revealed just how I little he understood U.S. and British attitudes prior to the invasion. Blind to the close ties that bind the U.S. and Britain, Galtieri had managed to convince himself that his cordial relations with the Reagan Administration meant that the U.S. would remain neutral. "I was North America's pampered child," Galtieri said. He also admitted that "we would never have invaded" if he had known that the U.S. would eventually give logistical support to the British forces after the failure of Secretary of State...
...activities because of Harvard's overwhelming emphasis on men. By recognizing that it need not replace Harvard in importance, perhaps Radcliffe, through RUS, can turn its attention better to complementing it. And with than reassurance, perhaps women at Radcliffe will no longer allow confidence in their own abilities to bind them to the subtle negative influences inherent in a traditionally male university--influences which may inhibit the very qualities which have brought them so far already...
...Democrats made it clear that the agreement did not prevent them from pushing for further antirecession legislation or opposing the President's budget and tax plans. "This is a first step, which does not bind anybody," said Foley. For that matter, Republicans too were pushing ahead with plans for further unemployment relief. "Even with a resurgent economy, we're going to have persistent unemployment," says Congressman John Erlenborn of Illinois, who has been appointed by the G.O.P. House leadership to come up with a broad jobs package...
...They certainly put us in a tremendous bind," Littlepage said after the game...