Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingredient of all the new plans is that they give money to employees several years in the future and only if they stay with the company. These ties that bind have become known in industry as "golden handcuffs." While they have long been common for very top executives, the programs are now routinely used for lower-ranking scientists or technicians. "We do not think in terms of locking someone in," says Ed Boches, public affairs director of Data General, a Massachusetts computer manufacturer. "We think that we'd like this person to stay, and this means that we have...
...mocks all social codes as shams that bind the will. When he steals Dona Elvira (Frances Conroy) from the convent to be his wife and then abandons her, he mocks vows made to God and to fidelity. He protests undying love and proffers marriage to two peasant girls (Kristine Nielsen and Hillary Bailey) merely as bait for the gullible. He mocks his fellow aristocrats by tripping them up in the niceties of codes of honor, and his aged father (John E. Straub) by an icy disdain for filial piety...
...outbursts "disjunctive interruptions" and suggests they have nothing to do with egotism or intolerance. "In fact, the old people have little choice," he says. "They can follow each statement, but they get muddled as to the theme, because they lose track of who said what." Once caught in that bind, an oldster has limited options: he or she can always launch a new monologue or simply sit there and let the other monologues...
...June 28th, about 15 minutes after Beheshti had begun to speak, the charges went off simultaneously. When the dust and debris had finally settled, a stunned and at first unbelieving count of the bodies began. There were plenty of white cloths in which to bind the wounded; rescuers simply unwound their long turbans...
Mexico, which is not an OPEC member, finds itself in a similar bind. Since 1976, Mexican production has more than tripled, to 2.8 million bbl. daily, and the resulting revenues from exports have become the foundation of economic development. Mexico has now cut prices by $4 per bbl. on both light and heavier grades of crude...