Word: bindings
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Unhappiness seems to bind many of us too often. It's remarkable how many of our conversations here are what Georgetown socio-linguist Deborah Tannen would call "troubles talk," and what most of us fondly refer to as "venting." Even while attending the world's greatest university and being offered so many options and opportunities in every direction, many of us remain dissatisfied. Most Americans would give their right arms to enter this bastion of our misery...
Likewise, a beneficent tyrant could better provide for domestic tranquillity. He could prevent crime much better than our courts, and he could punish it more justly since the generality of the law does not bind him. In addition, a beneficent tyrant probably could better manage our economy than does the current, fractured system of the Federal Reserve, the President and the Congress...
...response to The Time Bind, a controversial book that explores the challenges of balancing a family and work, two sociologists spoke at a panel last night titled "The Other Side of the Time Bind," organized by the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (RPPI...
...income women face a secret time bind," said Kathryn Edin, a sociologist from the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a book on single mothers' struggles with welfare and low-wage work...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton and her cohort of leading-edge Baby Boomers turn 50, it's time to take stock. Women are no longer forced to decide between children and careers (although our salaries are still only about 70% of men's). The kids survive; some thrive, despite the time bind of two parents running from work shift to home shift. We're tired--studies find women sleep fewer hours a week than their husbands--but happy...