Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans to say, of course. We already have power, indeed, the pre-eminent power in the world. And we've had it for a half-century. No wonder our elites are so bored with it, so enamored of treaties and conventions and all manner of devices that bind the world into a community of exemplary self-restraint, so contemptuous of mere striving for power and so shocked when that atavistic urge explodes in India, taking their cozy little illusions with...
...fear into the Fed. It's unlikely that El Niño can cause enough bad weather -- as it did in March -- to slow the job juggernaut again. Between keeping interest rates beneficial to Asia and raising them to nix U.S. inflation, Greenspan's bind just became much tighter...
...first time ever, The Crimson found itself in a bind when voting on an Athlete of the Week...
...same time, we're trapped by the double bind of voyeurism, appalled at what we witness, yet unable to take our eyes away. Here again Walker allies herself with the writers of 19th century slave narratives who knew all too well that violence and sexual titillation wee useful tools for attracting readers to the horrors of their plight. Walker admits to her "love for the unnecessary flourish," and it is precisely those formal details, whether salacious contours or languorous gaps, which captivate and torment...
...have so many students been applying to Harvard's Early Action Program lately? The numbers of students applying under Early Action increased fairly steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, reaching 2,990 in 1994. In that year, Yale and Princeton Universities switched from early action to bind early decision programs, and Stanford University, which had never offered an early program of any sort, adopting binding early decision as well. During the 1995 and 1996 admissions cycles, about 3,900 students chose our non-binding Early Action Program, and we experienced a slight increase to 4,200 this year. The number...