  In combination with supersymmetry, flavor symmetry may relate quarks with
leptons, even in the absence of a grand-unification group. We propose an
SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) model where both supersymmetry and the assumed A4 flavor
symmetries are softly broken, reproducing well the observed fermion mass
hierarchies and predicting: (i) a relation between down-type quarks and charged
lepton masses, and (ii) a correlation between the Cabibbo angle in the quark
sector, and the reactor angle characterizing CP violation in neutrino
oscillations.
