Word: bonding
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...story. Over the course of the story Vance keeps the relationship finely tuned by changing its nature from the beginning - Freddie needs a mentor and Sam needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from being on the road. The plausibility of this bond has as much to do with the artist Dan Burr's sensitive and realistic portrayal of the characters as much as Vance's sharp writing. Burr's black and white drawings are as powerful at depicting emotion as they are of depicting period and place...
Eugene M. Plotkin ’00, an associate in Goldman Sachs’ bond research department, and David Pajcin, a former Goldman Sachs bond analyst, have been charged with illicitly soliciting information on Wall Street deals from an analyst and recruiting an individual to leak copies of a business news magazine...
...every character seems cut out of cardboard (something especially evident when a burly Scotland Yard cop hilariously bullies Barker with the prospect of preventing him from teaching his “precious physical training classes” and when the criminal mastermind maniacally blathers like the worst sort of Bond villain). Still, Thomas maintains a brisk pace, and the read is quick and often...
...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 spurred a prolonged period of very low interest rates. That boosted U.S. consumption?in particular the rate-sensitive housing market?and kept the global economy humming. But long-term rates are now beginning to tick upward: last week the U.S. 30-year treasury bond reached 5.04%, its highest level since late 2004, and the housing market is cooling off?potentially triggering an economic slowdown as homeowners cut their spending...
...Olmert: I've spoken to him maybe three times since I became Prime Minister. There is a very strong emotional bond between the two of us, every time we speak we both feel it deeply. I know how he feels and he [knows] how I feel. I think it grew out of his first trip to Israel, when I hosted him in Jerusalem. He knows that I like him. I very much depend on the understanding and cooperation of President Bush. The reason I think [disengagement] can be done is because of the trust and understanding we have for each...