Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both cases, however, George and Doris eventually find their shared humanity sufficient bond against temporary biological and physical impediments. In he first of the two scenes, the lovers transcend the crisis when George delivers Doris's premature baby; In the second, when he reveals the roots of his bitterness in the recent death of his son by a sniper's bullet. Through the acts of birth, love and death-the rhythms that punctuate the cycle of life-the lovers reaffirm the ties that make them return each year...
Vinnell Corp., though not exactly a household brand name, is scarcely a do-nothing James Bond Universal Export with a plaque on a door and all mystery within. The privately owned company, headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, was incorporated in 1945, and has specialized in large-scale building and engineering projects in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries abroad. Vinnell served as the contractor for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, paved highways in several Western states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving...
...ugly power play has unsettled the discreet and usually gentlemanly world of investment banking. Using their new financial strength, a number of Arab banks have threatened to pull their money out of major international bond issues unless the managers barred some U.S. and European banking houses from participating. The Arab move was aimed at houses that were founded by Jews, and in some instances-but not all-are run by Jews and have dealings with Israel. In at least three instances, the underwriting managers caved in, and the excluded houses were barred from putting up their capital, collecting commissions...
...Britain's most prestigious investment banking houses, N.M. Rothschild & Sons and S.G. Warburg & Co., were barred from participating in a $20 million bond issue for Marubeni, a Japanese trading company. In a startling admission, officials of the lead bank in the deal, London's Kleinwort, Benson, Ltd., admitted that they had acceded to pressure from two other participants in the underwriting, the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank and the Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Co. If Kleinwort had not given in, said its chief, Sir Cyril Kleinwort, the Arabs would have invested their money elsewhere. But other London...
Earlier this month, Lazard Frères & Co., a Paris banking house associated with Lazard of Manhattan and of London, was excluded from any role in floating a $25 million bond issue for Air France. One of the participants, Intra Investment Co., which gets its money from Kuwait, Qatar and Lebanon, insisted that Lazard be shut out. Intra officials put pressure on the two lead banks in the deal, Credit Lyonnais and Banque Nationale de Paris, both of which are government owned. Lazard was also excluded from a $25 million issue for another client, the state-owned utility, Compagnie Nationale...