Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize quite how serious an economic problem their nation faces. Shops are packed with goods. "That casual visitor looking too intently for scars of crisis on the face of London," observes TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, "takes the risk of being hit by a Rolls-Royce while crossing Bond Street." Britain has been able to maintain its living standard as high as it has largely because it has borrowed large amounts abroad (about $4 billion) and because Arab oil producers have deposited an estimated $2.5 billion in London's banks. The nation could be brought to the edge of bankruptcy...
...meeting, which took place in William James Hall, the members of the union expressed dissatisfaction at the lack of any pre-existing formal bond among themselves...
...member of the group said that the first step towards creating a union of all GSAS students would be to form such a bond by "crossing department lines and showing what is going on in each department...
...singing and the shoving of people into the water went on for several hours by dockside but the loudspeakers stopped after "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and then "Waltzing Matilda." Even the vanquished crew of the Cross joined the hysteria. Alan Bond, who sank nearly $9 million into the fruitless campaign, put on a show for the crowd, jumping into the water nearly on top of his boat's designer Bob Miller...
Like Redford's "Gatsby," Bond too bombed in Newport this summer...