Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice of making AIDS patients into AIDS celebrities should cease. As past experiences show, the media is bound to be selective about which sufferers it publicizes as innocent victims and which remain among the anonymous masses of the great unwashed. This differentiation tends to occur along already existing lines of discrimination in our society...
...some extent, the increased litigation has served to make accountants more vigilant. But the reforms so far have failed to slow the avalanche of lawsuits. More litigation is bound to increase the cost of doing business for accountants, which in turn will mean higher costs for the companies they serve and for customers down the line. And if that drives the best professionals away from the areas where they are needed most, it would be a heavy price to pay for America's obsession with lawsuits as the way to solve all problems...
...administrators to perk up flagging student interest in the sciences. "We cannot afford to train everyone as a scientist," says Clarence Hall, dean of physical sciences. "But there are hardly any students to teach. Science and engineering are the engine of economic progress, and without some changes, we are bound to lose the fuel for that engine...
...added success for Le Pen's mean and narrow nationalism would be bound to diminish further France's influence as one of the five countries with veto power on the United Nations Security Council and as a leader in integration of the European Community. And whatever happens to Le Pen, that influence is already threatened by the prospect of a period during which the country is increasingly absorbed in internal wrangling...
...those making history, however, the action is not always attractive. Many ruble-bound Russians, faced with hyperinflation, must sell prized possessions in order to feed their families. Some are even beginning to look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed, says he felt "nothing but shame" when, on TV, he saw his country's awkwardly named "Unified Team" compete in hockey during the Winter Olympics. A taxi driver, passing Moscow's heroic monument to the Soviet space program, comments matter-of-factly that it was built "when we still had pride...