Word: binds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forty-one days after they are named, the electors meet in their state capitols to choose the President. Legally, they are free to select whomever they please, although custom and party discipline usually bind them to the nominee they have pledged to support. If no candidate wins a clear majority of the electors' 538 votes, the contest moves to the House of Representatives, where, in theory, the 26 smallest states, with 17% of the U.S. population, could impose on the nation a President of their own choosing...
...book in Swahili, with English translations, on rudimentary business practices. Featured are Mr. Shida, a bumbling, unsuccessful shopkeeper, and Mr. Ali, a progressive, flourishing entrepreneur. Mr. Shida, for example; is in serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other cake is safe under glass. Which would you buy, A or B?" There are even a few words on how to knock...
Many property owners in the same unenviable bind have asked the courts for a legal roadblock against encroaching progress. With rare exceptions, they have lost out to the principle of "eminent domain," which allows the state to acquire private property in the interests of the public good. But Dennison claimed that in addition to compensation for the land itself, the state should pay him for loss of privacy and deterioration of his scenic view. He also tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments...
Joanna Pettet stands by-wholesome in homespun-to bind up his wounds. So does Karl Maiden as her drunken father, the country doctor. But Stamp is perfectly able to take care of himself; it is the movie that ups and dies...
While pay scales are a major factor, housing's cost problem reaches far beyond wages. The $24 billion industry has been fettered for decades by myriad little, mostly local ties that bind it to old-fashioned methods and an archaic organization. Each strand of that web reinforces the others&$151;enormously inflating the price of the final product...