Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using angry language to recruit support may be dangerous, as Naipaul shows; but there's a greater issue he never addresses. He won't allow the leaders their anti-imperialist rhetoric, but he doesn't offer them any other suggestions about how to bind their countries together. He wants them to write their histories "accurately," and then everything else would fall into place. But is the real Argentina European or South American? How far back in time must countries search for an identity...
...virtual destruction of the city's schools. Even with a 13 per cent spending increase, many supports will be removed from an already shaky system. But, as school superintendent William Lannon and Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 have pointed out, the city is caught in a double bind. If taxes are raised too much, it may add further fuel to the tax-cutting fires and impair the city's ability to meet its citizens' needs even further...
...city's bind comes from more than King's tax-cutting initiatives. Apparently in an effort to stem the rising tide of inflation, and also to allow for vast increases in defense spending, the House Appropriations Committee last week gave preliminary approval to an end to revenue sharing...
...deficit would be best, but shoveling out the money on almost anything will do. That sort of attitude, which treats the levy as a windfall bonanza for politicians, makes a cruel joke of the tax. If the proceeds are not devoted to helping the U.S. out of its energy bind, then the nation would be better off with no such...
...since 1887. Many experts claim that the Tories engineered their downfall. Given Trudeau's resignation and the constant harassment by both the Liberals and the socialist, labor-backed New Democratic Party, (NDP) an election seemed a good time to consolidate Conservative support, catch the Liberals in a tricky interregnum bind, and at the same time blame the unwanted campaign on defiant opposition...