Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year -- revived worries about Miami's rate of violent crime, the highest in the U.S. Despite the bad press, European airlines like British Airways and Iberia Airlines of Spain have increased capacity to the city. Even the Russian airline Aeroflot makes money on Miami by picking up Florida-bound tourists at a stopover in Shannon, Ireland. And in 1992 a record 1.5 million tourists sailed from Miami, the cruise capital of the world, aboard 20 liners bound for balmy ports from Cozumel to Caracas...
China's "Me generation" is less hostile to the communist regime than indifferent to it. "The government is all around us, but we don't pay attention," says Nie Zheng, 23, a Beijing artist and photographer. That means forfeiting job security and welfare benefits that traditionally bound even artists to the socialist system. But Nie earns enough from free-lance work to pay for Japanese cameras, CDs and designer sunglasses. The parents of Pang Rui, 18, want him to have security as a teacher or a doctor. But the university-bound student from Xian demurs: "I want to be free...
...test in the upper house next month, and a dramatic rearrangement of the electoral terrain seems all but assured. As a result of the legislative changes, entrenched political tenure among members of the Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P), so secure that it was handed on from father to son, is bound to crumble, and the number of political parties in the country will probably shrink from the current nine to two or three. Though corruption will surely not disappear, the current need for politicians to raise huge sums of under-the-table cash for re-election will diminish. Perhaps most important...
Those of us born in the years after Kennedy's death are bound in a strange relationship to this piece of collective memory. We never felt the magic that our elders tell us flowed from this more-than president. We know little about who he was or the ideas for which he stood. Instead, we are handed Camelot on a platter...
...Ellison says Jasper enjoys watching television, especially when he sees other dogs. "If it has a dog barking in it, he loves it," she says. "His favorite movie is Home ward Bound...