Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulate the state's thrifts and replace the old private insurance system. The new laws will require all Maryland S and Ls to obtain federal coverage within four years or close their doors. In case they need state help in the meantime, the legislators authorized a $100 million bond issue. To reduce Maryland's potential loss in rehabilitating the Old Court and Merritt thrifts, the state began negotiating their sale to such institutions as New York's Citicorp and Chase Manhattan...
...most primitive level, it must be admitted, Rambo works. Its hero is like a sullen but gorgeously sculpted James Bond, impervious to pain, implacable in the face of impossible odds and impeccable in his skill with any weapon that comes to hand, be it his own customized bowie knife or the Vietnamese helicopter he casually appropriates for the finale. The long sequences in which he builds his body count to inestimable levels are well designed and well executed by Director Cosmatos. They are, in fact, so compelling that one tends to chortle in anticipation of Rambo's next superhero ploy...
...think it's nice because it helps bond the team, when we're all calling each other names that we have picked," pitcher Janet "Lefty" Dickerman says. "It's funny, though, because all nicknames come from stupid things...
...happy monogamy the ideal state of man? But Kramer and Hoffman are dramatists as much as propagandists. What makes As Is and Normal Heart so deeply affecting is that they portray anguish and doom in individual human terms and enable audiences of every sexual inclination to grasp a common bond of suffering and mortality. Oddly, yet persuasively on the stage, both plays are also very funny...
RELEASED. Gary Dotson, 28, convict serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a 1977 rape; on $100,000 bond while Illinois authorities consider his plight; from the state penitentiary at Joliet. The trial judge had freed Dotson on bail five weeks ago, then decided that the recantation of his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, was not sufficiently believable and returned him to prison after a week. Said Dotson after he left prison: "I feel like a pinball...