Word: bonding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kill off,” he said. That, of course, applies to life and not films. As far as films go, Benton still has at least one person he’d like to take down. “I’d to anything to make a James Bond movie,” Benton said. “He would trip and die in the first scene, and then Miss Moneypenny would be left to clean everything up. That’s what interests me.”—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached...
...broach the topic of the U.S. Church's sex abuse crisis. But having already spoken three different times about the crisis since arriving - and offering a poignant and unprecedented private meeting with victims of abusive priests - Benedict focused his remarks in New York on the need to repair the bond between the faithful and their priests. He prayed for "purification" and "healing," assuring the priests of his "spiritual closeness as you strive to respond with Christian hope to the continuing challenges that this situation presents...
...COMPUTERS Again, two: an official campaign desktop and a Sony Vaio notebook (complete with a James Bond theme) that he takes on the road. At work, he uses one mostly for e-mail and one for the Internet...
Your nest egg doesn't have to suffer a similar fate. Any time turmoil strikes the market and your notional allies--in this case, banks and bond-rating agencies and bond insurers that are supposed to backstop you--fail in their duty and leave you, well, dogless, it's a good time to take a good look at what you own. In this sense, says Guy Cumbie, a financial planner in Fort Worth, Texas, "anything that stress-tests your portfolio and gets you to pay attention to the level of risk you are taking is a good thing...
Investor Wilbur Ross called attention to the "relatively unparalleled" values in the muni-bond market in March, when he revealed a $1 billion position. Muni yields almost never beat Treasury yields because both are considered safe, but the income from munis is tax exempt. That anomaly occurred earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed...