Word: bende
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That it may give to your bridges the bend...
...have been reminders of years gone by. His flexible policies, his easy use of hyperbole, his variable definitions of statements have sometimes suggested a man so bent on capturing friends that language became too casual. In his eagerness to cast himself in the best light, he occasionally appears to bend the facts to fit the moment. His skein of contradictory statements about the reasons for firing U.S. Attorney David Marston, who was probing political corruption in Pennsylvania, was most likely one of those convenient misunderstandings, probably a tiny incident in Carter's mind to get him over a small...
Both sides will give and take as the negotiations proceed, but there is a limit to how much Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons can bend. If he stays firm and wins a big settlement, that may help him fight off small but growing and vocal dissident movements within his union. The insurgent groups-Washington-based PROD Inc. and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union in Detroit-aim to wrest control of the scandal-scarred union's leadership. The rebels want more democracy and a cleanup...
...Weidenbaum: "This gets to the heart of the matter, which is to slow down the growth of the Government." One danger is that the G.N.P. is the product of many estimates and is often revised; if spending were linked to the G.N.P., politicians would be tempted to twist and bend that number...
...joint statement Vance, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Dayan said they began the talks with a reaffirmation of "their determination to bend their best efforts toward successful completion of the negotiations as soon as possible...