Word: bonding
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...course. The family pet can help parents continue the bond with their adult children, and it "reminds kids that parenting is a hard job and that, old as they are, you're still there as their safety net," says Stephanie LaForge, senior director of counseling at the A.S.P.C.A...
...frauds left Le Carre with a natural gift for duplicity that he turned to professional advantage. For an undisclosed period of time from the late 1940s into the 1960s, he worked for Her Majesty's Secret Service, though he is quick to downplay his exploits. "I was never James Bond or anything like it," he insists. "I sat behind a desk...
...lifted the curtain on a secret war fought in silence not by chiseled movie heroes in tuxedos but by paunchy, bitter men in ill-fitting trench coats, real human beings who loved and suffered and doubted and died in an atmosphere of profound moral ambiguity. They were James Bond come unbound...
Parmalat unraveled quickly--and seemingly out of nowhere--after it had trouble meeting a routine bond-interest payment in November, prompting tougher scrutiny of its books by Italian regulators and its own auditors. A follow-up audit produced a stunner: an account held by the company at Bank of America in New York City that supposedly contained about $5 billion turned out not to exist. All the paperwork, including written confirmation from the bank to Parmalat's auditors, had been forged, Bank of America said. "What is shocking here is that it appears the assets were just plain fabricated," says...
...spilt milk, Italian business may be about to start crying even harder over the Parmalat scandal. Stung by the €7 billion alleged fraud at the dairy firm, Italian banks are looking to tighten restrictions and raise risk premiums on loans to companies. And the domestic corporate-bond market has all but dried...