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...practices. Prohibitive and therefore restrictive rates were never intended by the founding fathers when they set up the postal system. Its mission, they felt, was not to make money but to facilitate the diffusion of information throughout the young republic. That nation-building charter, said George Washington, was to bind "these people to us with a chain that can never be broken." Since then Congress has reaffirmed the principle as a national purpose...
...financial bind has loosened. Despite howls from customers, regulators are permitting bigger rate increases more rapidly. During this year's first quarter, investor-owned utilities won approval for hikes totaling $1 billion a year, almost half as much as they got during all of 1974. Interest rates have come down to about 9.5% on good-quality bond issues by utilities and even less on their bank loans. Power demand is rising again, though it is only 2% ahead of last year's rate. A group of 75 utilities that recorded an aggregate profit increase of only 3% during...
...Bradley, LL.D., mayor of Los Angeles. You bind rifts in the fabric of your city, disproving Yeats' apocalyptic vision that "the center cannot hold...
...East Los, the message that comes through is pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals as part of their history lessons...
...only toward the sound a voice produces rather than to the voice and the person who owns it. "Singers come out of his concerts hoarse." Adams is a "very talented conductor" and his concerts sound "spectacular," but during the year she was in Collegium he made no efforts to bind the group. Her own efforts as a conductor are directed toward creating a rapport with her cast and orchestra. "I enjoy the leading." If she had to act or sing on stage, she says. "I'd get stage fright," but "when I come out to conduct and the spotlight...