Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most important, the city's long period of fiscal crisis has subsided. After a general fund deficit that grew to almost $7 million in 1990, the city has balanced its books and has accumulated a rainy-day fund of $25 million. Standard & Poor's, which suspended the city's bond rating after its 1978 bankruptcy, today gives the city...
...years ago, Daley, a Democrat, convinced Illinois' Republican state legislature to hand him authority over the schools. He ousted the city's entrenched educational bureaucracy, installed a school board that put nearly 20% of the schools on probation for low performance and got approval for $850 million in bond issues to build new school buildings and renovate old ones. The Daley regime's hard-hitting reforms, which included cutting 1,700 nonteaching jobs, are particularly impressive in a town where, in the days when Daley's father reigned as mayor and political boss, politicians used to say that the purpose...
...them had indicated via letters to me that they'd grown apart--two soul mates severed. I had trouble comprehending the divorce until my visit, during which they reunited. A bond still exists between them, but each one's life is so separate now that we spent an hour on Saturday having them update each other on senior year...
...fall, but that is almost irrelevant. For those blinded by the glitz of the Harvard name, my individuality is insignificant. It upsets me that my college affiliation is a social Great Barrier Reef and that our tight trio is evolving in three different directions, but we still have a bond. We will always have Israel, and we will always have one another. "In my life, I love you more...
...free on bond until an October sentencing that could send him to prison for up to three years, though six months is more likely. But can he serve his constituents while serving time? Yes, he can. There is no rule that removes members of Congress for misdemeanor convictions. The House Ethics Commitee, which would review the case if a complaint were filed, won't be taking new cases until mid-September. Looks like Kim could set a whole new precedent for lawbreaking lawmakers...