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Graduation has left the team in a bind, claiming five seniors, three starters, and three of the top four scorers...
...this occasion, Her Majesty was also something of a power behind the throne. As nominal leader of the Commonwealth, a loose association of 48 former British colonies, she was working quietly "behind the scenes," as one aide put it, to tighten the ties that still bind those nations. She held private talks with each of the 36 heads of government who had assembled in New Delhi for the Commonwealth's seventh biennial meeting...
...Madrid, at a meeting of foreign ministers of the 35 states that had participated in the three-year Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Working sessions of the conference ended on Tuesday with an agreement that does no more than schedule a series of future conferences and bind the signatories to pledges about human rights, like the right to form free trade unions, that hardly anyone thinks can be enforced. Still, it once seemed an achievement of sorts to produce a document that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were willing to sign, and the Spanish government...
...their sexual intercourse. These relationships describe an unhealthy attitude toward sex which they think is not as fulfilling as anticipated. For example, in the case of the soldier and parlour maid, he virtually has to rape her after they meet at a cafe. The couple really has nothing to bind them except passion which becomes the common bond uniting all the scenes...
...signal political success for bilingualism has been won at the U.S. Department of Education. After the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that Chinese-speaking students were entitled to some instruction in a language they could understand, the DOE issued "informal" rules that now bind more than 400 school districts. Immersion in English, even rapid transition to English, does not satisfy the DOE; the rules compel school systems to offer a full curriculum to any group of 20 or more students who share a foreign language. The DOE rules have survived three presidencies, although Jesse Soriano, director of the Reagan Administration...