Word: bonds
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...could stop singing Don't Stop? (David Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics...
...battered women who hadn't taken that fatal step. Women who resorted to violence were usually those who were most isolated, socially and economically; they had been the most badly beaten, their children had been abused, and their husbands were drug or alcohol abusers. That is, the common bond was circumstantial, not psychological. "They're not pathological," says social psychologist Blackman. "They don't have personality disorders. They're just beat up worse...
...line from the film Wall Street. For Charles Keating Jr., the former head of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan, greed could be good for over 500 years in jail and $250 million in penalties. Keating was found guilty of racketeering and fraud by a federal jury. Meanwhile, imprisoned junk-bond king Michael Milken was released to a halfway house...
Andrews said he thought the Corporation hadsold all its bonds by the end of the summer. TheHarvard Management Company would not release afigure for the total bond investment inHydro-Quebec...
Dartmouth College, however, divested itself ofall its Hydro-Quebec bond holdings, nearly tenpercent of its total endowment, after a petitionof more than 2,300 signatures urged Dartmouth'sBoard of Trustees to consider ending the college'sownership of project bonds...