Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PLAY THE STOCK MARKET. By now there is wide agreement that stock and bond markets could in effect pay much of the nearly 30% of pensions that Social Security taxes will eventually no longer cover. But who should invest how much of the system's money? Clinton's proposal to have the government do the investing is a poor second best--and not only because of the danger of political manipulation of business. More fundamentally, individuals ought to have some say in how to invest money that the government taxes away from them. Redirecting some Social Security money into individual...
Instead, Abraham helps clients decide in what form their debt should take. She helps them distribute their debt between stock issuance, bond purchase and borrowing. In the office, she spends most of her time trading bonds or on the phone with clients...
...that slowly dissolve from black and white to faded gray. My own eye was immediately drawn to the central image of her dying mother, a frozen moment that captures the reality of pain and suffering. It embraces simultaneous feelings of understanding and empathy, powerful forces that reflect the strong bond between mother and daughter. With a title meant to contradict Dylan Thomas's poem about his wish for his own father, Steven's painting resonates with a wish for her mother to "go gentle" towards a peaceful death...
...century. Orphaned by a U.S. cavalry raid, the girl is captured and sent to boarding school. She escapes, only to be discovered by a monkey and its newly married mistress, Hattie Palmer. Indigo, fighting to keep her culture, and Hattie, fed up with her own, form an uneasy bond. No matter how many new worlds Hattie takes the girl to, Indigo longs to return to the tribal gardens in the dunes. The plot undergoes some awkward twists to accommodate that wish, but Silko has crafted a dreamlike tale out of one of the ugliest realities in American history...
...like Katz, more and more parents are wrangling with tough questions: how to handle the external aspects--the stares, comments and other public behaviors that arise when families look different--and perhaps more important, how to handle the internal--the need to affirm the family bond while helping a child craft a strong racial sense of self...