Word: bond
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Gatti was most famous for his three legendary bouts with Micky Ward. The two were bred to fight each other; they couldn't have a bad round. And through the combat, they forged a bond. When Gatti fought his last bout in 2007, Ward was the trainer in his corner...
During December and January, Harvard completed a $2.5 billion bond offering to bolster its cash reserves, as well as to refinance riskier forms of debt. Several media outlets have suggested that the University held insufficient cash reserves, and Forbes magazine wrote that Harvard had found itself in a "cash-raising panic" in the midst of the economic recession...
Earlier this year, the University's Chief Financial Officer Daniel S. Shore rejected this depiction of Harvard's finances, saying that the bond offering had been issued "quite competitively given market conditions at the time...
...nearly two eventful and fitful decades - Kennedy, King and Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was fought and lost, Nixon resigned, hostages were taken in Iran - he was America's rock. In an era of big-news giants like Huntley, Brinkley and Chancellor, he had a special bond with his audience, born of an on-air demeanor that was both folksy and knowing, calming but not disinterested...
...stock market rose powerfully on Wednesday, with the Dow jumping 3.1% to 8,617 and the small-stock Russell 2000 index rising 3.9%. That's more than most bond funds return in a full year, and it was the best daily performance in the last three months for many market indexes, including the Dow and the S&P 500; the broad S&P index is up 6% this week alone...