Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy persuading an organization whose motto means "Always Faithful" to lighten up on adultery. Indeed, Defense Secretary William Cohen's attempts to standardize the military's response to adultery in the ranks may have set him on a collision course with the Marines. "The Marines think of themselves as bound by a higher code, while Cohen wants uniformity, so there's bound to be conflict," says TIME Pentagon Correspondent Mark Thompson. "But defense secretaries have learned that you don't want to tangle with the Marines if you can avoid it -- they wield a lot of political power...
...energetic Brit Ian Wright, gives you the parts of the world you'd never see even if you decided to use your vacation time to go to Greenland and Ethiopia. Wright will eat anything, climb anything and bother anyone in the cheeriest way possible. Almost as good is Adventure Bound, where insane Australian former bricklayer Alby Mangels delights in endangering his life in creative ways, like filming the marijuana plantations of Caribbean drug lords. It's as though Kramer never left...
...like "fellowships," "internships," two-year teaching programs, nine-month work programs in Botswana or backpacking trips that follow the trail of McDonald's across the continental United States (funded, of course, by a federal grant). As much as these experiences might differ from college, all of them are nonetheless bound together by a single factor: like college, they are all temporary...
Millions in the U.S. believe passionately that their liberty, their safety or both are bound up with the widest possible availability of guns. So 30 years later, guns are still very much with us, murderous little fixtures of the cultural landscape. We live with them as we live with computers or household appliances, but with more difficult consequences--some of them paid in blood. Among the industrial nations, this cultural predicament is ours alone...
...Hemingway ("He was not a very nice man") hangs above a cartoon from the strip Hagar the Horrible ("with whom I have great sympathy"). Stacked around his desk like a fortress are volumes on the Boer War, the Civil War and World War II; biographies of the Founding Fathers; bound editions of the American Hunter; tough-guy novels by Larry McMurtry, Elmore Leonard and Patrick O'Brien. And, yes, the souvenirs: the ax, dripping fake blood, from a production of Macbeth and the sword from the movie El Cid. ("All things I've killed with or been killed with...