Word: bindings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Khatami is in a bind. Two days day after Iran?s moderate president warned that further democracy protests would not be tolerated, the streets of Tehran are firmly in the hands of militia bands sent by Iran's conservative clerical leaders to crush the pro-democracy protest movement, while pro-Khatami student activists run for their lives. The spectacle of Khatami denouncing the students who?d launched their protest to defend his own reforms from conservative attack captures the dilemma of a man trying to change Iran?s theocracy from within. "Khatami was caught between contending forces...
...Kashmir Wednesday, and began preparing to host Pakistan?s foreign minister for peace talks on Saturday. And it?s not just their triumph in the all-important cricket encounter that?s got India approaching those talks with a measure of confidence. "Pakistan is in a bit of a bind now that the U.S. is putting on pressure for talks," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It had hoped to provoke India into escalating the conflict in order to bring it up at the United Nations again, but India has refused to be drawn in to a wider conflict. Pakistan...
...colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the world this spring, thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin's find themselves in a similar bind. True enough, this is an era of record-breaking lows in unemployment. But technology companies, which are contributing the lion's share of new jobs, are simultaneously declaring a shortage of qualified workers. The emphasis is on the word qualified...
...result, about a third of the fat that would ordinarily be taken into the body is flushed right through the digestive system. Unfortunately, so are vitamins A, D, E and K, which bind to fat molecules. To make sure that patients don't develop vitamin deficiencies, the FDA requires that the Xenical label recommend that users take a multivitamin two hours before or after taking the drug...
Throughout the winter, the self-conscious masses can mask their smelly feet problems with boots, leather armor and thick socks. But when warm weather brings out daisy dukes, tube tops and the requisite strappy sandals, rancid foot sufferers are caught in a bind. Do they dare to bear their toes and risk losing their friends to the stench? Smelly feet aren't a total loss. Andrew D. Hackbarth `99 attributes the name of his party-prone room in Kirkland House, The Swamp, to his roommate's notorious foot odor problem. But usually, the revealing skin of open toe cleavage, spaghetti...