Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making the U.S. a full member in all but name, and loosing a flood of unsolicited praise for the U.S. Said Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose country depends on the U.S. for 40% of the government's budget: "They have made no attempt to bind us to them in chains or strings, and weak though we are, negligible though we may be in military might, they have had the vision and large-heartedness to treat us as equals...
...Boron's principal value in high-energy fuels is its ability to bind hydrogen into a liquid or solid form, thus harness hydrogen's energy (52,000 B.T.U. per Ib. v. 18,500 for kerosene...
...excitement started when Columbia University told about two experiments proving that the "parity law," one of the cornerstones of nuclear physics, is a man-made convention which does not bind nature except in special cases. According to the parity law, objects that are mirror images of each other must obey the same physical rules (see chart). Applied to nuclear physics about 30 years ago, this principle became extremely important. Theories that seemed to violate it were summarily rejected. Much of the structure of modern nuclear physics was erected on parity...
...increasing popularity of long-term contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation, civic affairs and other fields that will bind the rank-and-file closer to the organization in periods when there are no new contracts to get excited about...
...Meredith, now 51, and National Life's executive vice president, got another selling job. He became president of the New England Council, a post previously held by such eminent New Englanders as former Boston Federal Reserve President Laurence F. Whittemore and Senator Ralph E. Flanders. His task: to bind together the diverse elements of New England's economy into a cohesive unit...