Word: bounded
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...faces a daunting task: trying to increase the paltry numbers of women and minority scholars in FAS in the face of tradition-bound hiring practices and, in many cases, a dwindling pool of candidates...
...incident began around 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday when an ambulance heading down Washington St. bound for Carney Hospital was flagged down by two men in a car. Moody, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck, was a passenger in the car, police said...
Added to ethnic grievances in Armenia is the railway blockade, which began + two months ago when Azerbaijanis stopped allowing freight cars through railyards in Nakhichevan. The facility handles 85% of goods bound for Armenia from other Soviet republics, giving the Azerbaijanis a virtual stranglehold. The cutoff has not affected food supplies, many of which are home grown, and markets in Yerevan last week were stocked with fruits and vegetables. But fuel supplies were virtually nonexistent. Car owners waited in lines at the city's gas stations for days at a time. There were also acute shortages of many building supplies...
Founders of fraternities must think carefully about starting organizations over which they do not have final say over all matters of operation, since they are bound by national guidelines. The members of Sigma Alpha Mu ran into this very problem. Although the majority of its members supported coed membership, the organization could not include women for fear of losing its national charter. It is precisely for this reason that the Harvard administration originally did away with recognition of national organizations...
...weeks before the country's June 19 ban on imports from non-African nations went into force, traders arranged for 35 ivory shipments to Japan, weighing 29 tons -- a fourth of 1988's imports. (Hong Kong officials worked overtime to approve the flurry of export permits for Japan-bound ivory.) In September Japan announced it was, "for the time being," adopting a zero quota for ivory imports. A government spokesman said Japan will follow closely the events at the Lausanne meeting before deciding whether to resume limited ivory imports. Japan's major traders have enough ivory to last a year...