Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least he wasn't alone. He knew that. Others had realized it long ago; Kesey in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Pynchon in "V," Heller in "Catch-22." He had friends, people who took his side. He felt a common bond, even with the people he had never met. They, too, understood...
Senior German officials do not expect the personal bond between the two leaders to alter the basic views of national interest so deeply held in both countries. It is well to remember, though, that Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou did not like and trust each other; Schmidt and Giscard do. That is a notable advantage even, or perhaps especially, when policies diverge...
...businesses of their own. Small businesses generally are having trouble borrowing to expand or in some cases even keep going. Most big businesses can still get credit-indeed, their excessive borrowing is a major cause of the present squeeze. But electric-power companies, which must regularly go to the bond market to borrow the funds required to expand and maintain their systems, are in deep trouble as investors demand higher and higher interest rates...
...borrowed for 13 weeks, or 120% a year; $150 a week on a $5,000 loan, or 156% a year. The loan sharks are sophisticated operators who keep close tab on the legitimate money markets and often cite the latest jump in the bank prime or in bond-market rates in order to convince reluctant customers that they cannot get credit elsewhere. The loan sharks will take on poor risks; but if a customer falls behind in his payments, he faces a lot more than a dunning note...
...sums of capital they will need to expand capacity so that they can relieve shortages of oil, steel, paper and other products. For that, corporations need not the short-term funds they can borrow at the bank prime but the long-term money raised by selling new issues of bonds or stock. But as towering interest rates make bond issues costly, they also depress the stock market by luring money away into such high-yielding investments as bank certificates of deposit. The Dow Jones industrial average last week fell below 800 for the first time in five months and closed...