Word: boundingly
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Daniel Ortega Saavedra hit the road at 5 a.m., bound for the northwestern city of Ocotal, where several thousand supporters awaited him. The same day, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro met in her airy Managua home with advisers of her National Opposition Union (U.N.O.), then received a courtesy call from Joao Baena Soares, secretary-general of the Organization of American States. Next door, Chamorro's aides frantically tried to add more appearances to her schedule, despite doctors' orders not to tax her limited stamina...
Never one to be bound by foolish consistency, Gorbachev dismissed the notion of a multiparty system as "rubbish" just a year ago and warned against taking a hasty decision on Article VI at the Congress of People's Deputies in December. Then, on his visit to Lithuania in January, he lobbed a political hand grenade, off-handedly remarking that he saw "no tragedy" in the development of a multiparty system. Last week he said the Communist Party would still struggle to play a leading role but "within the framework of the democratic process by giving up all legal and political...
Unless the legal bickering over Executive privilege becomes protracted, Reagan may face imminent disclosure of his mysterious jottings, made in leather-bound notebooks. To date, only two of his closest aides have seen the original diary. The few attorneys who have examined excerpts say they contain no Iran-contra bombshells. But Poindexter, who insisted in Senate testimony that "the buck stopped with me" in keeping the diversion of arms profits a secret from his boss, hopes the diary will show that Reagan gave him at least implicit direction to do what...
...under the direction of Lisi Fishman, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Dramatic Society's production of Broadway Bound emphasizes the dramatic, rather than the comic, aspects of Simon's play. The performances of Jodi Kanter, Jeff Golden and Jeremy Blumenthal as Eugene's parents and brother are riveting...
These occasional distractions tend to make the early stages of Broadway Bound slow going. But as the play gets under way, the quality of the performances eclipses such minor technical problems, and it becomes difficult to avoid immersing oneself in the drama of the Brooklyn family's troubles...