Word: bond
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Harvard is preparing a large bond issue of later this year which will raise approximately $200 million to refinance the five-year-old Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP...
...people, from 2,600, and will also install some 45 welding robots. First crack at the jobs will go to 3,300 Chrysler workers on layoff from the plant. There was widespread relief in and around St. Louis, which has an unemployment rate of 11.1%. Said Missouri Governor Christopher Bond: "We have seen unemployment far too high, far too long." Sighed Richard Burton, president of United Auto Workers Local 136 in Fenton: "Good news has been a long time coming for Chrysler workers." Or for auto workers in general, some 268,000 of whom are currently on indefinite layoff...
DIED. George Bond, 67, chief scientific investigator and senior medical officer for the Navy's Sealab missions, which tested human capacity to live and work undersea; of heart disease; in Charlotte, N.C. Bond developed a process of saturating body tissues with a mix of helium and oxygen to withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering...
...level has no carrels. They hunched over between two stacks, discussing their fast diminishing options. Jack wanted to play it bold and take the horrendously clanking elevator all the way up to Five--"It's like James Bond, it suits my image." Jill thought it was too dangerous. While they were debating it, the light suddenly went on in the stack next to them. Mindlessly, they hightailed it around the stack and managed to keep the obstacle between them and the janitor, who heard the racket but was able to catch only a glimpse of Jill...
Blumenthal left Zaïre in 1979. But he continued his investigations in Western Europe, obtaining from former Zaïrian Prime Minister Nguza Karl-I-Bond, now living in exile, the estimate that Mobutu's private fortune exceeds $4 billion. Most of it was said to be held in Swiss bank accounts, a point that may explain why the Swiss have been receiving fairly regular payments on loans owed them...