Word: bindings
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...Asian nations and the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At this point, it amounts to little more than a trade-issues study group. Though Washington has avoided taking any position on the matter for now, the U.S. might eventually prefer to see APEC become a mechanism to bind Pacific Rim nations into a NAFTA-style trade family, especially in the face of sentiment building among some Asian nations in favor of regional trade arrangements that exclude the U.S. "The U.S. has at long last started to look seriously at its trade interests in the Pacific," says Kwon Byong Hyon...
Such memory is generated on the basis of interactions between specialized cells, known as T and B lymphocytes, and antigens. Upon first "seeing" a given antigen, in the phase known as the "primary response," just a handful of the millions of cells can actually recognize, or bind, the antigen. The system is thus incapable of mounting a truly effective response...
...maybe the same isn't true for Nick. I've stayed up all night worrying about his tenuous mental condition, and I don't see any easy answers in sight. He's caught in a horrendous double-bind, just the sort of thing that leads to schizophrenia and full-scale psychotic breakdowns. And now, somehow, I feel that all this is my fault...
...uncertainty about the succession has begun to paralyze the Chinese bureaucracy vis-a-vis such sensitive issues as the negotiations on political organization in Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover in 1997. Says a China watcher in Hong Kong: "No one wants to make a decision now. That would bind them, and no one knows what is going to happen when Deng dies...
...gluey sugars were known to bind to a family of proteins called selectins, which had already been identified as the substances that connect white blood cells to blood vessel walls...