Word: bond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's penchant for prayer, so suspect in other climes, was a reassurance at this particular summit. Indeed, the bond of spirituality among those three men may have been the most important emotional conduit. None was embarrassed by the others' deep convictions...
...roster of full partners from 30 to 21. Those remaining, including the best-known of all, Felix Rohatyn, 50, the mastermind of New York City's financial rescue, have agreed to reduce their share of profits to make more money available for recruitment. To move into municipal bond trading, David-Weill hired the top traders at five of the biggest bond houses. Some other heavyweight hires: Frank Zarb, once the Ford Administration's energy czar, and Donald Cook, former chairman of American Electric Power, one of the U.S.'s largest utilities. Both Zarb and Cook were brought...
...deliver to the Chinese: socialism is enriched, not weakened, by the diversity within it. The same theme was elaborated on by Tito, who said that both countries had produced socialist revolutions of an authentic character. Their original paths, he added, taken under different conditions, have provided a lasting bond between them...
...have improved sharply. Profits reached $45 million last year on revenues of nearly $2 billion, and are piling up at a faster pace so far in 1978. As one sign of its recovery, the company announced last week that it would call in a third of a $75 million bond issue it floated two years ago; this will make it easier to finance a purchase of National, partly because it will trim Pan Am's existing interest obligations...
...name was unusual?and unprecedented. No Pope had ever adopted a double name; none had selected a first-of-its-kind name in a millennium. Apparently, the new Pontiff wanted to signal originality and also a bond of continuity with his two immediate predecessors: the reformer, John XXIII, and the moderator, Paul VI. Or was he evoking their New Testament forebears...