Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issues places him left of center in the Republican Party. Wilson has been progressive on the environment and has signed legislation against gay discrimination and for gun control. More important, his pro-choice stand on abortion rights, immutable since he was a mayor, puts him in a vexing political bind. For while it is increasingly difficult to be elected to statewide office in California today if you are not pro-choice, it may be well-nigh impossible to be nominated by the national Republican Party...
...release, it becomes clear that he is an unabashed optimist about the future of his country. South Africa, he suggests, is a kind of laboratory for the future of race relations around the world. He predicts that the "unique balance of mutual dependency" that made apartheid unworkable will bind the nation together in a kind of multiethnic harmony. Like Mandela, Sparks believes that what unites black and white in South Africa is greater than what divides them...
Members often avoid telling new recruits the name of the group for as long as possible, calling their meetings a "non-denominational Bible study." At these meetings, new recruits are counselled to confess their sins before the group, creating what one cult expert calls a psychological "double bind." If they confess, they tie themselves emotionally to the group, but if they do not, they are torn with guilt...
...council has already submitted a bid to the band for an April 29 concert. The bid does not bind the council to bringing the band, according to Campus Life Committee Co-chair Jonathan P. Feeney...
...bonds that bind mere mortals together...