Word: bond
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Whether Wilkins retires at year's end or next July, the search for his successor is still on. Among the leading candidates: Memphis Lawyer Benjamin Hooks, 51, the only black member of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, 36; N.A.A.C.P. Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, 65, sometimes described as "the 101st Senator"; N.A.A.C.P. Official Gloster Current, 63, who now handles many of the organization's administrative details; and Gustav Heningburg, 46, director of the Newark Urban Coalition...
...came close to bankruptcy early this year when a Mississippi court ordered it to pay a white policeman $210,000 after state officers of the N.A.A.C.P. had accused him of brutality. Only a special $300,000 contribution from General Motors Corp. enabled the N.A.A.C.P. to post a $262,000 bond in order to appeal the state court's ruling...
...publishers brood about-then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking the way Tom was. Presumably they must have liked the novel's reassuring answer, which is, more or less, cherish your wife, vote yes on school bond issues, and existential despair will stay away from your door...
Instead, Genesco has made a strong comeback. Through the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, the company racked up profits of $14.9 million. Sales were up 3%, to $864 million. In February Genesco was able to market a $70 million bond issue that will enable it to get past the November deadline for repaying much of its long-term debt. Says Jarman, 44, a former naval reserve pilot and hot-air balloon enthusiast who salts his conversation with aviation lingo: "We're committed to takeoff...
Figuring that they cannot top Carter anyhow, right-wing purists argue that they might as well nominate their ideological favorite, Reagan. At the Missouri convention, Governor Kit Bond repeatedly cited a poll showing Ford running twelve points better than Reagan in the state; delegates were unmoved because they knew that the same numbers indicated that both men would lose to Carter. What the delegates overlooked is that if a presidential candidate crashes, a lot of his party's candidates for state and local offices get bumped off too−as happened when Barry Goldwater ran in 1964. The whole...