Word: bond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guevara who turns out to be a humane and tragic figure; even Fidel Castro, between bouts of egomania, is a | fully developed antagonist. The least satisfactory character, curiously, is Blackford Oakes, a CIA soloist whose IQ seems to be only a couple of digits higher than James Bond...
...capital. Enticed by steep American interest rates, Japanese investors poured about $25 billion last year into U.S. Government securities. That windfall financed a sizable chunk of the $175 billion federal budget deficit. Without Japanese money, interest rates on Treasury securities, which now range to 11.66% on a 30-year bond, would be even higher...
...course, wives have pull with husbands. In the Reagans' case, her impact & may be greater because the bond is stronger. After 33 years together, they are, by all accounts, rapturously fond of each other. "She has always had more influence than people generally realize," says Michael Deaver, the departing White House deputy chief of staff and long her principal ally in the Administration. Even when she does not make her position known on an issue, Administration officials have learned to anticipate her potential support or opposition and proceed accordingly. "The threat of her influence," says one White House aide...
...move to cut long-term borrowing costs, the University last week refinanced $146 million of a $229-million 1982 bond issue that went to pay for laboratory and House renovations and projects at the Medical and Business Schools...
With more than $640 million in bond issues outstanding. Harvard currently carries the biggest debt load of any university in the country...