Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extends from the tanned cocaine kings of Miami to the youth selling jewelry on a San Francisco street corner to the carpenter who will build a kitchen cabinet for less money if paid in cash to the little old lady who babysits for the neighbors. Their only common bond is an unwillingness to pay taxes on their earnings. Yet the tax gap also derives from the lies of business executives and professionals, from all kinds of petty chiseling and expense padding...
...only from the urgency of his plot but from the complex texture of individual scenes. His characters must pursue moral absolutes in a dangerous world mined with ambiguities. Kurtz attempts to explain his crusade and his chosen victims to his new recruit: "Only those who break completely the human bond, Charlie. They deserve to die." Kurtz means terrorists, but he himself must face the necessity of ordering death for someone who has committed no crime except being too stupid or unlucky to stay...
Expectations that lower oil prices could forestall a renewed outbreak of inflation led the bond market to boom, and prices of everything from silver futures to soybeans fell. Gold tumbled $60 during the week. Experts estimate that every $2-per-bbl. drop in oil prices cuts U.S. gasoline costs by 50 per gal. at the pump, so motorists should soon feel some gains. Home heating-oil prices also will decline...
...flashes of brilliance, producing snatches of driving guitar play. But repeatedly, experimental aspirations sabotage singer Steve Wynn's songwriting. On "When You Smile" both the lyric continuity and the rhythm are broken by an instrumental intrusion. Even on the closing title cut the finest on the album--the bond puts its propulsive playing on hold white it goes pioneering...
...decision which categorized MATEP as a profitable entity owned by a "charitable institution" cleared a major roadblock which had prevented the bond issue in the past...