Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RIFT has chosen the Persephone myth as a symbol of the change from the matriarchy to the patriarchy that occurred in western prehistory. The natural bond between mother and daughter--between female and female--is forcibly broken. Woman, who possesses the womb and is therefore the source of life, is subjugated to man, whose power and symbol is death...
Nelson Rockefeller's stock and bond portfolio, like the man, is basically conservative-with a tendency to take an occasional flyer into the unknown...
...main point to be pondered, however, is the way our policymakers use the CIA. In a world of sovereign states we need an intelligence agency, and as intelligence agencies go, the CIA is fairly good. The problem occurs when Presidents and Secretaries of State begin to think that James Bond has any relevancy to the real world. It is not William Colby who should be brought to judgment about the U.S. role in Chile, but Henry Kissinger...
Last week Bundy faced the fact that the boom is over. With inflation and sagging stock and bond markets cutting heavily into the foundation's total assets ($2 billion, down from $3 billion a year ago), he announced that Ford is considering cutting new grants by as much as 50%. That was bad news for all of the foundation's beneficiaries, but educators are particularly distressed; they feel that schools are more vulnerable to the slashes than the institutions that Bundy has stressed in recent years -those devoted to social change. Furthermore, Bundy hinted that the foundation might...
...table in the New York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows of champagne and a dunking in the soupy waters of Newport harbor. Undaunted, Alan Bond, the Australian real estate operator who had sunk $9 million into the disappointing Southern Cross challenge, promised to return to Newport some day, but with another boat...