Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That fashionable subject of sexual role reversal gets some attention. In a series ABC is considering, Once Upon a Spy, a woman plays a James Bond-like character, while her cowardly male partner wants to stay home and play chess. To match the soft-core female pornography of Charlie's Angels, ABC is also looking at a spin-off called Charlie's Devils, with three macho males chasing the baddies. Dancer Fitzgerald does not say what those sexy devils will be wearing, but it probably will be as little as possible. In CBS's Kops, California marshals...
During last week's hearings, Senators and Congressmen dueled with Langhorne Bond, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, who defended his use of consultants. Bond had been criticized by the GAO for not considering other firms before giving a $200,000 contract to the firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. to study possible management changes at the agency. Bond pointed out, accurately, that he had not violated any policy or law, and then blasted the GAO itself as a "menace." Said Bond: "They want to create a world in which there is a perfect audit trail for every Government...
...even beyond, Palestinians as individuals have uncommonly excelled in the arts and literature, in business and the professions. Their political views vary, as do their opinions on the best way to achieve their goal of an independent state. But as a people they have managed to forge a special bond of community, rooted in an obsessive longing for the idealized soil of Palestine. Some of these voices...
...Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank: "We have absolutely discouraged borrowing for bricks and mortar, heavy machinery or inventory buildup." Already hard hit by the housing slump, the forest products giant Georgia-Pacific announced a 25% reduction in capital expenditures rather than attempt to float another expensive bond issue...
Specials-are black, yet these bands have forged some common musical bond with the island music, doing it honor but making it their own in much the same way that the early Rolling Stones, the Animals and the Beatles excelled in revisions of American rhythm and blues at a similar point in their careers. The Specials flirt with social commentary and take on racial injustice in Doesn 't Make It Alright, whose straightforward lyric and fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys...