Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty, but in the curse of slavery. Whatever may have divided Southerners, the legend says, they shared these roots--along with the impenetrable bond of their supremely unAmerican experience: Defeat...
Rating Lowered. By passing the dividend, though, Con Ed has created more problems for itself. Like most utilities, it must frequently sell new issues of stock or bonds to finance maintenance and expansion of its system. When the dividend was omitted, Standard & Poor's immediately lowered the credit rating on Con Ed bonds-so much that some potential investors, such as savings and loan associations, will be legally barred from buying them. As a result, Con Ed in effect is asking New York State to do some of its borrowing for it. Under a plan that the legislature...
...letter, the PBH executive committee specifically supports the United Committee's recommendations that there be a "formal bond" between the DuBois Institute and the Afro-American Studies Department and that the institute's director hold a chair in the Afro Department...
Wing forward Doug Quimby broke Princeton's back with an 80-yard sprint down the sideline, scrum-half Henry Nurenberg buried the Tigers with Harvard's final try, and fullback Gary Bond sealed the tomb with four more points from his two conversion kicks...
Phone Demon. Simon enters the Cabinet after only 17 months in Washington; Shultz spirited him away from a Wall Street bond-trading career that had made him a millionaire to take the No. 2 job at Treasury in December 1972. In that post, and later as energy czar, the 46-year-old Simon acquired a reputation for candor, accessibility to the press and to Congress, and a fierce independence. He has clashed publicly with other top Administration officials, and even found himself at odds with the President last winter when Simon ridiculed some energy-crisis observations by the Shah...