Word: bonding
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...trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political Director Rich Bond. "But like a lot of high-wire acts, timing is everything...
...Beverly Hills-based Milken, who built the junk-bond industry almost from scratch and amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $500 million, is attracting plenty of attention these days -- much of it in the form of official probes. For 18 months, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been investigating Milken and other executives of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, reportedly on charges that they helped Ivan Boesky carry out his insider-trading schemes. Milken and his employer have denied any such wrongdoing...
Wolfe's latest book, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," is about to enter its 27th week on the bestseller list. The novel, Wolfe's first, exposes the shallow values of a New York bond broker--and may have particular relevance to the lives of graduating seniors, said Schwalbe. The novel "talks to the conflict between social conflict and yuppie careers," she said...
...strong common bond is love of and skill in negotiating. A species of political bargaining has already begun, tentatively, in public. Some of this is thematic: Dukakis, for instance, has begun to match Jackson's emphasis on combatting the drug menace. Last week, with a large publicity flourish, Dukakis signed a bill establishing the first statewide health insurance plan. The fact that Jackson also emphasizes health care gives them another patch of common ground, although they have differing views...
Members of Black sororities and fraternities"feel as though when they bond together they willbe overcoming racism. This is their way offighting it. Really, that only serves tosegregate, not bring together," Eden Williamssays. "I think interracial contact is the way toovercome racism...