Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed the mark by a wide margin when he also accused A.T. & T. of financial blunders. He complained that, to raise the huge sums that it needs, the company had diluted shareholders' equity by depending too much on issuing new stock and too little on borrowing through the bond market while interest rates were low in years past. Replies A.T. & T. Treasurer John Scanlon: "I think he was speaking outside his area of competence...
...fact, Bell began to step up its borrowing five years ago. Despite tight money, the company this year expects to float a record $4 billion worth of bonds, using many remarkably astute innovations. One idea is to sell $100 "Ma Bell savings bonds," bearing interest of 6½% or more at phone company offices throughout the U.S. Savings and loan men and Treasury officials, who sell U.S. savings bonds, are afraid of the competition that this would bring to them. Mindful of such fears, A.T. & T. officials last week decided to turn as usual to the ordinary channels...
...nothing. L'Enfant Sauvage is a film about education, about how people learn from each other how to act ("act" in every sense), and because every action Truffaut shows involves education, the film shows that in every relationship between people there is teaching and learning. And in every emotional bond there is simultaneously acquiescence and resistance, and oppression and improvement, and Truffaut refuses to make judgments one way or the other. Instead he lets our joy, at seeing the boy become more sensitive and more human, work against the pain the doctor inflicts on him to drive him from...
Pleading innocent at arraignment, Lough was released on $5000 bond, and Morgan...
...beach below. "At 1,000 yards, my .50-calibers are deadly . . . I cannot miss . . . My finger tightens on the trigger. A touch, and he will crumple on the coral sand." But there is something about the potential victim's bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death. I should never quite have forgiven myself if I had shot him-naked, courageous, defenseless, yet so unmistakably...