Word: bonds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollywood was buzzing last week with reports of MGM/UA being in play and a handful of rival studios looking at its assets, which include the valuable James Bond franchise. The day before the beleaguered studio issued an SEC filing stating it was considering mergers or other ?business combinations?? to bail itself out of financial straits, news leaked that director Michael Apted had been selected to helm the company?s next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with "Small Soldiers" director Joe Dante and others chatted up before...
...service -- issued a booklet pointing out that while it holds 13,000 active files on British residents, it "does not kill people or arrange their assassination." Now it seems MI6, MI5's foreign-espionage counterpart, will be forced to bring out a similar glossy pamphlet denying everything. Mr. Bond will be most displeased...
...great idea," says Richard Kirshenbaum, co-chairman of Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners. However, he and other admen say blink ads can't introduce products but they can certainly reinforce such icons as McDonald's Golden Arches...
Those days ended five months ago, when Bond took over as chairman. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Congressman Kweisi Mfume, the hapless Chavis' replacement as executive director, has proved to be an adept fund raiser and effective lobbyist. Bond's predecessor as chairman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since...
...Bond does not mince words. When I asked him what issues he thought the N.A.A.C.P. would be dealing with in the next century, he said, "It's still white supremacy. It still means so much to those who practice it. It defines who they are. It makes them feel that they are better than others. It ensures them positions in employment and college admissions they otherwise might not have. It still puts a lid on the dreams of black people, though to a lesser extent than in the past because of the civil rights movement." That, to be sure...