Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stances have sort of become my trademark," she observes, then demonstrates on her Beverly Hills diving board. There is the Amazon Triumphant (Raquel with feet wide apart and arms overhead, embracing the sun). The Virgin Victim (Raquel crouching, head tilted upward, flinching). The Mistress of James Bond (Raquel with legs apart and hands on hips, eyes smoking...
...WALTER BOND Syracuse...
...usual, housing will be hit first and hardest because higher interest rates elsewhere will siphon away funds normally available for mortgages. Small businessmen will feel the pinch immediately. Consumers may expect to pay more shortly for auto and appliance loans. Record bond interest rates have now soared beyond the reach of many local governments, forcing them to postpone many projects such as sewer and water lines and school buildings. New York Telephone had difficulty finding takers for a $150 million issue yielding 7.47%. New York's Consolidated Edison had to pay a record 7.9% on an issue...
...historical references can lend any play a certain measure of unearned dramatic scale. Such loans, however, are called in early, and the courtiers and courtesans of Monmouth spend fast and free. The play, with all its wigged aristocrats and highborn themes (I noted free will versus determinism, the ambiguous bond between father and son, and the interpenetration of civilization and savagery--all before I stopped Counting) runs straight downhill with the mechanical insistence of a daytime serial. Can a simple lady-in-waiting find happiness with the monarch of all England? Can Jim of Monmouth ever fathom his father...
...challenging established firms with exuberance and even effrontery are the builders of conglomerates?those multipurpose, multi-industry companies that specialize in hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off?at least...