Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge city manager James L. Sullivan told the City Council last night that he would ask it to approve a bond issue later this month to fund school and hospital renovations, but added that he would not actually float the bond until the "market had gotten over Proposition...
Proponents of the practice point to players who went on to successful high school and college careers after repeating a grade. John Bond, the freshman quarterback who led Mississippi State to an upset win over then undefeated Alabama last October, voluntarily repeated the eighth grade at his Valdosta, Ga., school. Says Bond: "I wasn't too hot about the idea at first. All my friends had gone on to high school, and I had new friends. I felt dumb. But I realized that at least I could get some playing time if I stayed back...
...business-school scholarship and pop sociology, he concludes that Japanese managers get more out of their employees than American bosses do because the whole structure of Japanese society encourages mutual trust and cooperation. This allows collective enterprises like large corporations to flourish. Japanese companies are structured around a powerful, bonding attachment between workers and their firms, and Ouchi focuses on the ways that managers help to reinforce and strengthen the bond. Among them...
...Chisholm, a black liberal from New York, was willing to hold her fire. Said she: "There are lots of politicians that perhaps you don't believe from time to time. You have to give a person an opportunity to show whether his word is going to be his bond...
...others have suggested that a quasi-independent commission, armed with studies to show the money-making potential of cable t.v. in the city, might be able to float a bond issue of its own and raise the necessary money...