Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...archives have grown dramatically since their birth in 1850, when the Corporation voted to gather a few stacks of official documents and bind them for posterity. Today, the collection consists of more than 90,000 feet of manuscripts, 250,000 photographs, and thousands of historic objects that occupy eight miles of shelf space...
These nations and many others are in a financial bind partly because they are dependent on exports to the U.S. and those shipments have been slowed by the American recession. In turn, sluggish growth overseas has hurt American export industries. Two-way trade troubles have thus created a self-sustaining downward spiral that is difficult to stop...
Once hired, minority journalists say, they are caught in an affirmative-action double bind: the same preference that helps them get in also leads white colleagues to doubt their competence. Minority reporters complain that for them there is often no middle ground: if they are not extraordinary, they are considered inferior. Editor James Squires of the Chicago Tribune seemed to validate that charge. Said he: "We get two kinds of minority reporters: superstars capable of doing any kind of story, and those who are there only because they are minorities...
...adopt a neutral stance during the Falklands war. Haughey, for his part, is angry that he was not consulted about Prior's plan and agrees with S.D.L.P. Leader John Hume that the assembly is "unworkable." After last week's elections, an idea that had meant to bind the wounds of a bloodied land instead seemed more likely to inflict fresh pain...
This, as Kissinger suggests, may be as risky as overgenerosity. The banks thus have no easy way out of their bad-loan bind. They can only hope that a robust economic recovery, both in the U.S. and abroad, will revive the fortunes of the legion of hard-pressed debtor companies and countries. - By Charles Alexander...