For 118 days, when the world was reduced to what could be heard and said and done while handcuffed and chained with three other men in a cold, paint-peeling, eternally gloomy, 10-by-12-foot room.
There is a pervasive belief in our society that in order to be productive, we need to be chained to our desks with our heads down.
One woman chained herself to scaffolding with a bicycle lock.
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Among those who would see a reduction in VA benefits with a chained CPI are 3.2 million disabled veterans, 310, 000 low-income veterans who receive a pension and 350, 000 surviving spouses and children.
President Obama has proposed replacing the regular consumer price index, or CPI, to adjust Social Security benefits with the chained CPI -- often called the cat food CPI because the index assumes that when the price of human food rises, seniors can substitute cheaper food to get the same nutrition.
Okolloh found herself chained to her laptop, with her baby left in the care of her family.
The cartoonists scoured the depths of originality by depicting the Blade Runner's blades chained to a prison wall with the runner himself absent.
The chained CPI includes assumptions on consumer habits with regard to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases in future years.
While not chained by others, we chain ourselves by comfortably surrounding ourselves with likeminded people who reinforce our beliefs.
It is said that they entered the offices without permission, handcuffed and chained themselves to the desks and attached themselves to each other with a plastic pipe.
Will we still be chained to our living room sets or will we be carrying live TV with us everywhere using a tablet?
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Police said a man was chained to a tree when they arrived, but the group later moved to comply with the eviction order.
The chained CPI will take those substitutions into account through a chain-weighting method that varies with consumer spending.
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