Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question as to how U.S. industry will raise the $2 trillion to $3 trillion of new capital that bankers estimate it will need over the next ten years to expand capacity, clean up pollution and develop new technology. Electric utilities usually raise most of their money in the bond market, but so far this year 28 utilities have postponed bond sales or changed the terms. Consumers Power Co., Detroit Edison Co. and other utilities have canceled plans to build nuclear power plants because they could not borrow the money at acceptable cost...
...those who find all this criminal activity unsettling after dinner, the networks will offer nostalgic dramas tagging after the top-rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...
From the moment he arrived in Newport last June with his twelve-meter yacht Southern Cross, Alan Bond has been upsetting the genteel traditions of America's Cup competition. First the Australian land promoter and mining tycoon uncrated 20,000 cans of Aussie Courage beer in a resort that prefers champagne or gin-and-tonics. Then he gave in to his crassly commercial instincts, briefly sporting the name of his own 20,000-acre development on the transom of his yacht. Finally, Southern Cross's tender rudely ran an opposition boat off its practice course...
...which operates a string of parks on the west side of the Hudson River. In 1963 he went to work for Brother Nelson, succeeding Robert Moses as chairman of the New York State Council of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, a post he has since resigned. He has pushed for bond issues that have helped the state acquire hundreds of thousands of acres of land for parks and recreation. In medical research, Laurance is a founder and chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, parent of the renowned research institute...
Last week the government, using an $8.7 million bond that Court Line had posted, pushed a major effort-dubbed Operation Sunburn by some jokesters -to bring Court Line's stranded tourists home. And over Tory jeers that the Court Line affair proved Labor's ineptitude in dealing with industry, the government unfurled further nationalization plans: to take control of all British ports and their ancillary operations and to nationalize the country's two largest aircraft makers, British Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley. So far, though, no plans have been announced to nationalize the tourist industry...