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...GOLD had become so important, he says, that program directors routinely signal referees to call time for a commercial. Durso points out that increasing costs put the networks in a bind: "None of the networks could particularly afford to pay the escalating prices for sports, but then none of them could particularly afford not to pay them either...
...common commitment and the common danger bind you into a strong friendship with the people you work with. Even people you never really got to know--the person who came with you when you first went out at night to throw leaflets under the doors--even those people you remember and respect. You climb on the bus one day and you recognize the conductor as the man who went with you on your first effort, and he recognizes you, you just say "hello" and he presses your hand when he gives you the changes. That was it, but at that...
THUS FAR, the United States has refrained from enacting the more drastic possibilities of escalation because it has been caught in a bind by North Vietnam's clever timing. The President is scheduled to travel to Moscow next month for talks with Soviet leaders and the possible signing of a partial ABM treaty, and his advisors are extremely edgy about undertaking any action against Moscow's allies in Hanoi that might provoke Soviet cancellation of the summit meeting. By staging its offensive at this time, North Vietnam has skillfully exploited the internal contradictions of Washington's policy: after...
...referendum -as Charles de Gaulle often did-as a device for molding and increasing his own political mandate. The Communists, who normally carry 20% of the national vote, will almost certainly say no to the treaties. But other segments of the anti-Gaullist opposition will be in a bind. Because they are already on record as favoring Common Market expansion, centrists and socialists may have to swallow their anti-Pompidou animus and vote...
...remaining in such a tarnished paradise, but even the warning signals encountered abroad cannot argue with a set of emotions that are still back in the garden. He must follow the lines of action that form the framework of De Sica's subjectifying microcosm. These lines continue to bind his characters to the dual power of ethnic identity and omnipresent past. His young people run away and return, reject and make up, but the two dominant forces always narrow the scope of De Sica's drama to his claustrophobic universe, by holding all involved within the plot of the garden...