Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MISSOURI. In a stunning upset, Republican Christopher ("Kit") Bond lost his governorship in 1976 to Democrat Joseph Teasdale by less than 1 % of the vote. This year Bond is again running against Teasdale, and he smells blood. Says Bond: "I have no quarrels with Joe Teasdale as a human being. I just think he's been a miserable Governor." Bond pounds hard at Teasdale as the "Great Promiser" for not keeping his 1976 campaign pledge to reduce Missouri's electric utility rates. Says Bond: "Voters found out that they can't believe...
...urging the state legislature voted $2.5 million to help poor people pay their air-conditioning bills during last July's heat wave. Teasdale, a former state prosecutor who graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., acidly contrasts his country-boy background with that of the wealthy, Princeton-educated Bond. Says Teasdale: "He governed like a millionaire. He was not seen in Missouri except in the country clubs. There's nothing wrong with that-I used to caddy." Teasdale, who is running behind Bond in the latest polls, is outspending his rival by $2 million to $1.6 million...
...desert. But the web of political and military ties emerging around the Iraq-Iran conflict is complex and paradox-ridden even by Middle Eastern standards. The basic line-up?Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan versus Iran, Syria and Libya?cuts across almost every political, ideological and sectarian bond in the region and once again makes the old slogan of Arab unity ring hollow...
...says that "monogamy has never worked." Even though we may all have polygamous drives, the fact that many people do make monogamy work is proof that other things are involved. And in a world of dizzying change, the pair bond may increasingly answer needs more basic than sexual ones...
...that the man of action had been replaced by the watcher, or voyeur, whose act of watching included the creative functions or "eye" of the artist. One is company, two is a crowd: such is the implied mot to. This, perhaps, is why one senses so in tense a bond between Hopper and his apparently aloof, disconnected human subjects. The distance between the self and the other was bridged by an acute feeling of common predicament-a much more valuable thing than the compassion routinely expected of social-realist painters...