Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long Island catastrophe, Flight 52, bound from Bogota via Medellin to New York City, smashed into a wooded hillside in the wealthy community of Cove Neck. The absence of fire or explosion on impact and the lack of fumes afterward led to speculation that the 23-year-old Boeing 707 had run out of fuel only moments before it was supposed to land at New York's Kennedy Airport...
...they have been cheated of democracy by New Delhi. State elections have rarely had even the appearance of honesty; the militants greatly escalated their fight after the 1987 balloting was blatantly rigged in favor of candidates backed by the Congress (I) Party. Many Kashmiris insist that New Delhi is bound by 1948-49 U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for the people of Kashmir to choose their future in a plebiscite; like the administration before it, Singh's government has ruled that...
Afro-Am is a case study in the tradition-bound Harvard tenure system at its worst. A host of institutional defects--the bias against internal promotions, the never-ending hiring searches and the parochial departmental politics--are magnified in Afro...
Harvard's hide-bound tenure system prevents Afro-am from adequately filling its professorial ranks or adequately serving its students...
SUDAN. Since seizing power in a coup last June, Bashir has found one pretext after another for preventing relief agencies from helping the hungry. In November his fundamentalist Muslim government stopped a grain train and banned all emergency relief flights bound for the Christian and animist south. Khartoum justified the blockade of food and medical supplies by claiming that aerial bombardments of two rebel-held towns in the south made it too dangerous for relief workers to operate. When the rebels, who have no aircraft, charged that the bombings were in fact the work of the government, an official % spokesman...