Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARIS--A DC-10 airliner bound from the Congo to Paris with 170 people aboard disappeared on Tuesday, probably over the West African country of Niger, the French airline UTA said...
Time was, when you wanted such a meal, you had to go to a fancy restaurant. No longer. In major cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City, home-delivery services are springing up to rush gourmet fare from restaurants to the couch-bound affluent. In addition, many top-of-the-line restaurants are delivering their own plastic-packaged food, largely to combat the still lingering drop in business since the 1987 market crash. As a result, according to the Lempert Report, a food-industry newsletter, U.S. restaurants expect to sell more than $10 billion worth...
...approaches, there is fear that Western Europe will erect protectionist ramparts to shelter its rich new market. Dependent on global trade for their prosperity, most Europeans recognize the need to prevent such an outcome. But even if Western Europe remains open for business, the Continent's growing stature is bound to produce further strains in its relationship with...
...been able to survive." The strategist B.H. Liddell Hart, in History of the Second World War, applied the term "slow suicide" to Churchill's policy of fighting on. "By refusing to consider any peace offer," he wrote, "the British government had committed the country to a course that . . . was bound, logically, to lead through growing exhaustion to eventual collapse -- even if Hitler abstained from attempting its quick conquest by invasion...
Addressing the House of Commons that evening, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to equivocate. He said that if the Germans did not stop their invasion, Britain would "be bound to take action." The House was furious at Chamberlain's delays, and when Arthur Greenwood rose to reply for Labour, Tory backbencher Robert Boothby called out, "You speak for Britain." Said Greenwood: "I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain and all that Britain stands for, and human civilization, are in peril...