Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrity which evolved. Those people, the beautiful, delightful folks on Carson and in People, they are special, but they have all sorts of problems just like us. Since we are so like the celebrities, well, we must be a little special too. And, of course, now our problems bind us all together, too. No one knows what to do about the problems, but if the people on the talk shows and in the "teledramas" have them, too, maybe it isn't so terrible having them...
...KERMIT, for Lisa A. Henson, To the 'Poon she'll add humor and, we hope, thensum. Robin Schmidt and Lou Armistead will find great so-lace, When construction begins on University Place. Deane Lord and Al Alcorn strong stories will find, Freeing their Gazette from its once-a-week bind. And as for Sally Z., the tenant's best friend, We can't grant her wish and let rent control end. The good Reverend Gomes (the Configuide's star), May daub local sinners with feathers and tar. We doubt it, though; he's an awfully nice guy, Far nicer...
...talks by the end of the year. But Reagan's men had trouble deciding on a bargaining strategy. Weinberger and his Pentagon colleagues tended to favor the zero option. They maintained that it would be the best way to please the Europeans and put the Soviets in a bind. Haig, however, argued that the zero option would both raise false hopes in Europe and hinder serious arms-limitation negotiations with Moscow...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...
...bracket, and she lacked the tax benefits of owning a house. The trouble was that she could not meet the steep mortgage payments required for homes in the expensive Virginia suburbs. Her friend Suzanne Reed, 30, who works for the House Republican Research Committee, was in a similar bind. "It finally dawned on us," says Roberts, "that we just couldn't afford the kind of place we wanted alone...