Word: bounds
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...Jacqueline Kennedy thought the book would wind up 'bound in black and put away in dark library shelves.' The publisher, Harper & Row, did not dream of a first printing of 600,000, or of 'the bestseller of the century,' as it is now freely described. Few foresaw that The Death of a President would become not only a publishing phenomenon but also an emotional battleground?a book about which other books will be written. When it finally reached the public last week?some stores put it on sale ten days before the release date?it seemed the work had been...
...President wouldn't find troubling, in need of improvement or just plain horrifying. The peaceful republic that Jefferson wished for and did what he could to usher into being--a collection of independent gentleman farmers, moderately prosperous and highly educated, living under a thrifty, modest government that was legally bound not to meddle in their affairs, be they commercial, domestic or religious, and which staunchly resisted foreign "entanglements"--seems now like a large-scale version of Monticello, the grand but quixotic hilltop sanctuary that Jefferson never quite finished building and couldn't afford to pass down to his heirs...
After the meeting, they adjourn to the garden and drink sweet black tea in the twilight. As they lecture me on Islam, a roar cuts across the conversation. From the other side of the farmhouse, less than 50 yds. away, a missile soars over us with a thunderous screech--bound for a nearby encampment housing U.S. Marines. "Allahu akbar," they all mutterGod is great. Minutes later, the imam makes the evening call to prayer. The 50 militants gathered at the safe house form tight lines behind one of the imams and bow reverently in prayer. Then some leave...
...awarded for all but one charge. In that claim, which Woodlock said would have to be decided at trial, Shleifer asserts he was a “consultant” to the project and therefore not subject to USAID conflict-of-interest regulations, while the government argues he is bound by them...
...took was a final race stacked with Athens-bound shells on the third day of a gruelling international regatta...