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...activities because of Harvard's overwhelming emphasis on men. By recognizing that it need not replace Harvard in importance, perhaps Radcliffe, through RUS, can turn its attention better to complementing it. And with than reassurance, perhaps women at Radcliffe will no longer allow confidence in their own abilities to bind them to the subtle negative influences inherent in a traditionally male university--influences which may inhibit the very qualities which have brought them so far already...
...Democrats made it clear that the agreement did not prevent them from pushing for further antirecession legislation or opposing the President's budget and tax plans. "This is a first step, which does not bind anybody," said Foley. For that matter, Republicans too were pushing ahead with plans for further unemployment relief. "Even with a resurgent economy, we're going to have persistent unemployment," says Congressman John Erlenborn of Illinois, who has been appointed by the G.O.P. House leadership to come up with a broad jobs package...
...They certainly put us in a tremendous bind," Littlepage said after the game...
...archives have grown dramatically since their birth in 1850, when the Corporation voted to gather a few stacks of official documents and bind them for posterity. Today, the collection consists of more than 90,000 feet of manuscripts, 250,000 photographs, and thousands of historic objects that occupy eight miles of shelf space...
These nations and many others are in a financial bind partly because they are dependent on exports to the U.S. and those shipments have been slowed by the American recession. In turn, sluggish growth overseas has hurt American export industries. Two-way trade troubles have thus created a self-sustaining downward spiral that is difficult to stop...