Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These situations illustrate the social cost of a financial disaster: the near-collapse of the municipal bond market. Other results include a scaling down of planned airport improvements in Los Angeles, an increase in three-shift classroom sessions in the schools of Dade
...Bowes Bond trains Silent Screen Before the $306,075 Arlington-Washington Futurity, Bond persisted in talking about finishing last and mumbled something about an untested animal. Bond can be pardoned: it is only...
...Charles Playhouse in Boston, where productions range from dreadful to very good, the upcoming season is a mixed blessing. On the good side are O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (opens September 25) and the American premiere of Britisher Edward Bond's latest, Passage to the Deep North. Reduced-rate subscription tickets are available...
...many states, the defeat of local school-bond issues is directly attributable to "supermajority" laws that require more than a simple majority of yes votes for approval. Those laws are now under heavy attack. Judge John Hauck, of California's Sutter County Superior Court, has ordered the certification of a $4.75 million school-bond issue that was approved by only 57% of the voters of Yuba City-even though the state constitution requires a 66⅔% yes vote. The need for approval by any more than a simple majority, he ruled, violates the federal constitutional guarantee of equal protection...
Hauck's action follows similar decisions by courts in Idaho and West Virginia. It provides new hope that the courts will soon strike down the super-majority provisions still in effect in 12 states, making it easier for school districts to approve the bond issues they so desperately need...