Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollars for ventures that have reshaped American business. Yet most investors have had persistent reservations about the safety of the securities. One concern is that too much of the underwriting and trading in junk bonds has been handled by just one firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert (last name pronounced Lamb-bear), which controls 50% of the market. If that go-go firm were to get into trouble, many certificates could become more difficult to sell and would decline substantially in value...
...Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks, long in the public domain and too well known to bear repeating...
Thus, while our society's increasing pursuit of health has resulted in enormous gains, a note of caution may also be in order. Medicine, health promotion and disease prevention have their limitations after all, and we would do well to bear them in mind...
...sake. The Harvard administrators in charge of the transfer of the collection of German art now housed in the Busch-Reisinger Museum to the Fogg Art Museum might bear in mind the credo of some of the artists themselves. The decision to turn the Busch into a new building for the Center for European Studies has potential benefits for the Harvard community. But relocating the collection also has its pitfalls...
...should have been obvious, though, that the U.S. dealings with Iran would continue to bear fruit only so long as they were kept secret -- and that no maneuvers so momentous could be held under cover very long. In retrospect it is astonishing that so few people knew anything for a period as long as 14 months. But an essential part of the planning of intelligence operations is, or should be, what will be done and said when their covers are blown. And nobody in either Washington or Tehran seems to have given that much thought...