Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hidden costs is one reason why the Clinton approach seemed to be coming apart last week. But another is that the President's plan hangs on a string of interlocking parts: if one piece is removed in the legislative process, the rest of the mechanisms are quickly overloaded and bound to fail. For example, Clinton aims to pay for universal coverage in part by restraining health-care inflation through premium caps. If he backs away from caps, as he did last week, though, controlling inflation will be harder. So would be paying for universal coverage...
...hoarsely shouted to the point of venomous unintelligibility, which only means that whatever's being said gets eclipsed by singer John Lee's captivating way of "saying" it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Lee had swallowed a distortion pedal sometime around puberty--there's more noise bound up in his voice than there is in most beat-up old amplifiers. And when he's got something to say, it's even better--"Towner on the B-Side," for example, seems to be a song about insecure people trying to infiltrate themselves into scenes in order...
...telling the truth, he or she will face a tough working environment once the charges become public. Whether or not the accused is guilty as charged, he or she will likely be considered with suspicion by colleagues. And whatever happens, the impact on workplace morale and productivity is bound to be substantial--and negative...
...game started with very little flow, as both number-three Harvard and number-two BU (those national rankings are bound to change) seemed to jump offsides or ice the puck every 30 seconds in the first seven minutes...
Demme, sanguine with success, is ready to absolve the most rabid critic of Philadelphia. "We knew we were bound to tick somebody off," he says. "Actually, I was hoping to catch the ire of Jesse Helms -- that sort of terminally closed-minded person. I made this movie for people like me: people who aren't activists, people who are afraid of AIDS, people who have been raised to look down on gays. I feel we've connected with those people, and we've also generated press for the opposition. If everybody agreed the movie was great, it'd take...