That means Dunkin' Donuts, which has about 480 store locations throughout the five boroughs, would be in a bind.

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If it were to get to the Supreme Court, the justices there would be caught in a bind.

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South Koreans are only now waking up to the scale of the problem, stunned that their country could be in such a bind.

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If Ergen doesn't bite, Cablevision may be in a real bind.

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Keep in mind that unless medical cost inflation picks up, Medicare Advantage will be in a similar bind next year, looking at another potential cost cut.

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We were able to save it in Photoshop (not pictured), so HTC's flagship will work in a bind, but certainly wouldn't be our first pick.

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Since Ataturk was a hardline secularist, religion could not be used to bind Turkish subjects in this "unitary state", so language became the all- important glue.

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Developing countries are particularly in a bind because they aren't aware of how significant the problem can be.

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Yet there must have been tenets in common, and serious tenets, for so much else appears to be too nonsensical and wild to bind a community together.

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