Word: bond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Harvard put so much energy (as we will see) into generating this piddling amount? Why are pledges to the Senior Class Gift due before the bursar's card expires? A token show of financial appreciation forges the Crimson bond of the future. A senior who gives on his way out the gate, is more likely than one who does not to feel part of the University and to give to Harvard in the future. It's like voting: those who have done so in the past do so at a higher rate in the future...
...power luncher is encouraged to eat things uncooked. Raw oysters, raw meat and raw onions evoke a suitable image. Food size is equally important: "Steak is macho, and the bigger the steak, the more macho it becomes." Emulation is the ultimate in oneupmanship, since it creates a common bond with a lunch companion. "It's a very high power play to order the same thing as your guest in food or drink," write the authors...
EXPERIENCE IS A BURDEN because, seen from the lights of an unassuming intellect, it can be described and apprehended but not valued or shared; experience is light, even comic, but it no longer forms a bond between people. In narrating Tereza's life and in discussing the unsatisfactory nature of love, Kundera is at his very best; he brings the problem of lightness of being home in concrete and ironic terms...
Within weeks of the arrests, almost half of those felons were back on the street, having been released on bail, freed on then" own recognizance or placed on probation. The irony is that many of them had been arrested because they had previously jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or failed to show up in court to face earlier charges. Among the newly liberated: a 25-year-old Oakland man with 26 earlier arrests for grand theft and selling narcotics; a 22-year-old woman accused of forcible rape, prostitution and committing lewd acts with children; and a 21-year...
...interest-rate hike and fears about more to come sent the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 30 points during the week, after a 44.60-point rise the week before. It finished at 1154.84. Shaky for months, bond prices weakened again. As the markets fluttered, analysts and investors turned once more to their favorite sport: watching the Federal Reserve Board's every move. The policymaking Open Market Committee is due to meet early this week to review the state of the economy and set interest-rate guidelines, and many moneymen fear that it will tighten up rates because...