Word: bond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tagged with bringing the cold-blooded Coelho aboard. Coelho, after all, is a ferocious partisan, who took no prisoners in the Reagan years and resigned from Congress in 1989 rather than face questions about how he came to purchase on favorable terms a $100,000 junk bond from a Democratic donor. Gore is stalked by campaign-finance ghosts of his own, and so it will look a bit better if Coelho turns out to be Tipper's idea...
...described as being the smartest guy in the room--and generous enough to let you know it. Rubin, on the other hand, may actually have been the smartest guy in the room without letting anyone else know it. And right there is the difference between an academic and a bond trader...
...sources of power has been her odd-couple kinship with Republican Jesse Helms, the courtly but cantankerous conservative who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But she has been either unwilling or unable (how much of each is a subject of fevered speculation) to use her bond with Helms to push through the troubled nomination for U.N. ambassador of Richard Holbrooke--the high-octane negotiator of the Bosnian peace plan, a philosophical soulmate with whom she has a relationship that could be described diplomatically as "intense and complex...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in the GEORGE W. BUSH juggernaut. Rule G-37 prevents Bush from accepting much Wall Street money. It limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including Governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...
...began slipping steadily at the opening bell, before coming back to a 60-point loss by the close, a middling sell-off predicated on something like general unease. "It's really just uncertainty," says TIME senior economics correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "People are thinking about inflation again, and bond yields are very high -? which makes them suddenly look like a reasonable alternative to stocks if the Fed does put the brakes on the economy...