Word: bonding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Figuring that they cannot top Carter anyhow, right-wing purists argue that they might as well nominate their ideological favorite, Reagan. At the Missouri convention, Governor Kit Bond repeatedly cited a poll showing Ford running twelve points better than Reagan in the state; delegates were unmoved because they knew that the same numbers indicated that both men would lose to Carter. What the delegates overlooked is that if a presidential candidate crashes, a lot of his party's candidates for state and local offices get bumped off too−as happened when Barry Goldwater ran in 1964. The whole...
...large delegates. When added to the Missouri delegates already won by Reagan, the 18-1 victory gave him control of the 49-member Missouri delegation, with 30 votes to Ford's 16 (and three uncommitted). The only Ford delegate to survive Reagan's weekend charge was Governor Christopher S. Bond, who himself suffered a setback in the Ford defeat: when Missouri hosts the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in August, the Governor will not even be chairman of the delegation...
done-Brother, won't you buy a bond...
...from Pine Bluff, Ark., blonde, dimpled Martha made the scene first in New York. Her first marriage failed but her second, to Manhattan Bond Attorney John Mitchell, was a good one. Mitchell's $250,000 annual income provided a luxurious suburban home and still left enough to pay the hairdresser. When Daughter Marty was ready, she went to the best schools...
...quickly be turned into cash. The idea: when the company needs money, it can sell the securities rather than borrow. Even when they do borrow, companies are shying away from banks and either selling commercial paper (a kind of IOU) at rates below the bank prime or tapping the bond market...