Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig went so far as to suggest to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that concern over Soviet aggression might overcome the fierce internecine religious and cultural struggles in the Middle East and somehow loosely bind the countries there into a "consensus of strategic concerns." As part of that process, he urged that the ban on U.S. aid to Pakistan be lifted. Pakistan, which borders on Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, is prohibited from receiving American economic and military aid because of its nuclear armament program. A guarantee of regional security, he argued, would lessen Pakistan's "thirst" for its own nuclear...
...recent months, the Saudis have been meeting with five other Persian Gulf states* to lay the political underpinning for a proposed Gulf Council for Cooperation, which would bind the region with formal defense as well as economic and cultural ties. They have improved relations with a radical former adversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to the extent that Riyadh was accused of complicity-or at least patent moral support -in Iraq's original assault against Iran...
...neutrinos have even a tiny mass, they would have the capability to slow down and come to rest like protons and neutrons. The tiny mass of the neutrinos would not only increase their gravitational pull, but those particles moving slowly enough could gravitationally bind themselves together and form galaxies and clusters of galaxies...
...loser strategy. Reformist organizations like DSOC who hope to pressure the war-makers and strike-breakers in the Democratic Party offer no solution to the racism and economic misery endemic to capitalist rule. The fundamental task of revolutionaries in the United States is to break the ties that bind labor to the capitalist parties and build a party that expresses the independence of the working class...
...MBTA's DeNatale saw the problem in a different light. "We're caught in a bind--damned if we obey the state law, damned...