Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's welcome news to the parents of 3 million American kids with lead poisoning. But getting the lead out is not easy. Some children endured a procedure called chelation, in which drugs that bind to the metal are administered intravenously; others took nutritional supplements. And any home with peeling lead paint -- the most common cause of poisoning -- had to undergo extensive repairs...
...Crimson is in a really, really tight bind, though--like, say, in the NCAA finals--it'll be okay to depend on her, right? Just a tiny...
...cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and when the reasons that made him bind himself no longer exist...
SPENDING CUTS The White House is in something of a bind. Tax increases can be made, or made to appear, equitable by spreading them over enough people. Spending cuts tend to target particular people -- worse, constituents of particular Congressmen, often Democrats who have won re-election by boasting that they kept in the budget spending programs that benefit their district. On the other hand, some Republicans who are scarcely enthralled by tax increases might buy them as the price for reducing the size of government. "If he does what he promises, he's going to get a lot of bipartisan...
...only thing your silly ignorance will let you do to escape the momentary bind you're in: wave your hand in the general direction of the truth, tighten your shoulders vaguely and shrug, "oh, you know what I mean." Quickly, quickly, you pass the buck on to the listener, displace your responsibility for whatever nonsense you're mumbling...