Word: bond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires...
...instance, he says, "As recently as 15 years ago, a bond between a metal and a carbon atom wasn't considered possible. People said it would be too weak. But the rules have changed and new ideas are forming rapidly...
...Jazz Festival, Greektown, the Institute of Arts, hydroplane boat races, Ethnic Festivals, a world class symphony, first class restaurants, the Michigan Opera, two zoos, Canada (across the Detroit River) and an industry which is the backbone of the nation's economy Construction has been increasing following Detroit's AAA bond rating and has resulted in the development of high rise riverfront apartments, a downtown office/shopping/ apartment/hotel complex, a light rail transit system, and other projects. And yes, Detroiters can also be proud of their Tiger's success. Yet despite all of this, Doctoroff unbelievably writes that Detroit "gives its citizens...
...cultural mixture. But one could hardly describe Naipaul's recent work as joyous, "The Crocodiles of Yamoussourko," for example, offers a compelling but hopeless view of one of Black Africa's most successful nations. Naipaul echoes in non-fiction a point he made earlier in his novel A Bond in the River. While African development has been successful in building great monuments to itself, it has used what the west has given to it in a way that no colonial administrator or development planner eyer envisioned...
...against the French franc and Italian lira and was worth more than three West German marks for the first time since 1973. To foreign investors, said Walter Heller, who was President Kennedy's top economic adviser, "the U.S. is the safest and most profitable haven around for investment." Bond prices surged on the belief that the Federal Reserve Board is easing its monetary policy. Stocks also rallied. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 30 points to finish the week...