Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes to expand his holdings on behalf of some higher-ups and take over a whole block of abandoned warehouses, where hijacked goods can be left to cool...
Masters and Johnson's The Pleasure Bond is really a sophisticated tract, a plea for integrity and responsibility in marriage, a low-keyed argument for a husband-wife relationship of loyalty, trust, honor, openness and mutual love. What makes this case for the rehabilitation of some old-fashioned principles so impressive is the prestige of its authors. They are pioneering researchers and innovative therapists who subscribe to philosophical relativism. At the same time they are critical of emancipated moderns whose much heralded freedom may be a form of prolonged adolescent rebellion or unhealthy exhibitionism. They are also critical...
Recent visitors to Nixon's Casa Pacifica compound report that his spirits and his health have taken an upturn. Actually, the dwindling staff seems more depressed than the boss. "How much can you walk on the beach?" asked one youthful aide last week. "We have developed a special bond with each other; we depend so much on each other. But it is the bitter life of exile...
...forthcoming Congregation that Pope Paul sent to Arrupe. In it, the Pope urged Arrupe to end the permissiveness of recent years. He added: "We express once again our desire, indeed our demand" that the Jesuits remain "a religious, apostolic, priestly order, linked to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." Soon Rome was rife with rumors that Arrupe would have to resign under pressure...
...other reasons for a rally. Interest rates are falling-and will continue to drop-because of the new ease in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and a decline in borrowing by corporations as the recession deepens. With bank certificates of deposit paying only 6¾% interest and bond rates going soft, investors are turning back to stocks, which, at today's depressed prices, offer both attractive dividends and prospects for hefty capital gains when the economy finally picks up. Beyond IBM, last week's great gainers were the high-yield or interest-sensitive stocks that usually...