Word: bond
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CHRISTOPHER ("KIT") BOND, 37, popular Governor of Missouri, who would bring to the ticket a fresh face, unscarred by scandal-and not identified with Washington. Bond has trimmed Missouri's 87 state agencies to 14. Wealthy, self-assured, he has successfully fought against graft, and is so middle-of-the-road that both Reagan and Rockefeller have campaigned for him. Liabilities: limited experience and the fact that his elevation to the ticket could cost the G.O.P. the governorship...
...great strengths of the Japanese economy has been the extraordinary bond uniting workers and their bosses-the famous lifetime employment system. Once hired, a worker can traditionally expect complete job security for the rest of his career. Executives treat employees as members of a huge family; they devise company songs, run company sports clubs and even will slash their own salaries to avoid laying off workers. In return, companies receive-and reward-intense loyalty. Wages and benefits are determined by seniority; a man or woman who has been with a company for 30 years makes, on the average, four times...
Rothenberg presses his point. "I feel a great tie between me and him"--pointing to this reporter--"simply because he is Jewish. It's a bond I don't feel with him"--pointing to Saba...
...still high cost of long-term borrowing. Says Litton Industries Financial Affairs Vice President Joseph T. Casey: "In our spending outlook we pay a lot less attention to the level of future demand than we do to what makes sense at 9% money [the rate on many corporate bond issues] instead...
Byron died in 1824 of a fever, on a mud flat called Missolonghi, before he could do any fighting but not before most of his treasure had disappeared. His death, otherwise futile, stimulated English interest in the war. Two large bond issues were floated to help the Greeks, the proceeds of which were embezzled in London and stolen in Greece...