Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfying his own and his children's ambitions, was its concentration and independence. He had no firm or board of directors to whom he owed an accounting. Awed associates watched as he closed business deals by writing checks totaling millions of dollars. Now the managers and trustees are bound to spend money cautiously. The interests of grandchildren must be protected. It will not be so easy to plow millions into a particular political cause...
...first session in its embassy; the second, two days later, took place in the Soviet embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor and pomp, the arms talks were held in modest, almost cramped surroundings. In order to accommodate a conference table, a glass partition had been ripped out between two offices in the U.S. embassy. Even so, the room...
When the Rolling Stones made their first U.S. tour in 1964, a British politician warned that relations with the States were bound to deteriorate. Mick Jagger and his pals never had quite that effect on Anglo-American affairs, but everybody soon knew what that politician was talking about. From the first, the Stones refused to play the performing game: they were scruffy, wore outrageous clothes, flashed no toothy smiles. Brazenly, they thumbed their noses at the adult world-and still rode the crest of a fantastic success. Ever since, the Stones' career has seemed a demonstration...
...said, "so that our resolve will be tested." Nixon himself closed the meeting with a speech that asked business to "meet its responsibilities to make America the hope of the whole world." As for inflation, he merely repeated his earlier warning that businessmen who bet on its continuation are bound to lose...
...Vivian Taylor, a community worker in East Harlem. "On [welfare] check day, the first and 16th of each month, food prices are up. If 5 Ibs. of sugar was 59? the day before, it's sure to be 79? on check day." Samuel Meyer, 86, a wheelchair-bound resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, finds food prices up so sharply that he can no longer make his $70-a-month welfare benefits pay for a nightly soup of chicken wings and vegetables. He now makes his soup from vegetables only...