Word: bond
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Antonio C. Lasaga, the Yale professor and former Harvard lecturer charged last month with receiving and possessing child pornography, was arrested Wednesday for violating the terms of his release on bond...
...fingerprints?" he said on 60 Minutes. Even so, prosecutors waited until they had viewed the unedited video of Youk's death (not just the excerpts that 60 Minutes broadcast) before deciding to bring charges. Kevorkian, who at times smiled giddily at his arraignment, was released on a personal bond until the trial, which could take place in the spring. If the facts are as they appear in the video, Kevorkian could put together a fairly compelling case. He can invoke Youk's enfeebled state--he had lost the use of his arms and legs, had trouble breathing, was barely able...
Between 1836 and 1914, the U.S. lacked a central bank; Morgan stepped boldly, sometimes magnificently, into that breach. When gold reserves backing the country's legal tender dipped perilously low in 1895, he masterminded a bond issue in New York and London that replenished the gold stock--one of many acts he performed that preserved America's credit abroad and evinced a new financial maturity that won the confidence of foreign investors...
...lucky and landed a job as a business writer at TIME. "Son," my interviewer had asked, "do you know anything about business?" Stretching reality like bubble gum, I replied, "Sure, sure, I like business very much." In fact, I didn't know a stock from a bond. But I got the job anyway...
...when three striving journalists--Charles Dow, 31, Edward Jones, 27, and Charles Bergstresser, 24--started Dow Jones & Co. to pick up news and gossip and then peddle them to brokers, bankers and slippery speculators. In 1889 Dow Jones launched the Wall Street Journal, a four-page stock-and-bond paper. Price: 2[cents]. As Edward Scharff writes in his book about the company, Worldly Power, "The Dow Jones messenger boys and reporters hustled advertising and subscriptions while they made their rounds... Much of the financial advertising in the Journal was placed to buy the newspaper's silence...