Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their vaults and a certain portion of their demand deposits-mainly checking accounts. They must place the portion of their deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts with the Federal Reserve. The board controls the amount of reserves in the banking system by buying and selling Government securities from bond dealers and thus either adding or withdrawing cash from the market...
...Arab governments have been pursuing a policy that is deeply inimical to the legal and "social principles of the industrial democracies. Financial and political capitals were shocked by the revelations last month that Arab bankers in Libya and Kuwait had threatened to pull their money out of major international bond issues unless certain U.S. and European banking houses with Jewish ties were barred from participation. Now the economic issues raised by such tactics are rapidly becoming a major diplomatic concern as well...
...crowd is docile, about half black and half white, a group of refugees with the common bond of having been bombed out of a job. They are a mixture of "good ole boys" with beer bellies bulging over the belts of their double-knit slacks, trim women in stylish pantsuits and fur jackets, and young managers and technicians in three-button, charcoal gray suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran...
...Italy's arms exports, totaling $240 million last year, include helicopters for Iran (built under license from the U.S.), frigates for Peru, tanks for Pakistan and counterinsurgency aircraft for Zambia and South Africa. James Bond's favorite pistol, the snub-nosed .25-mm. Beretta, is still sold all over the world. La Spezia's Oto Melara company has tested a high-speed missile-launching hydrofoil designed to protect narrow bodies of water. Italian arms appeal to nonaligned nations since Rome attaches no political strings to sales...
...rather than depressing" and said that he saw Germany as a "stabilizing factor" in Europe. After September 1, 1939. Lindbergh became a leader in the fight to keep America out of the war a cause which rallied people from all ends of the political spectrum from the German American Bond to the Communist Party, but which never won the support or even succeeded mitigating the distrust, of a majority of the American people...