Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alabama vote split more evenly: 50% for Jackson, 47% for Mondale.) One weak spot for Jackson was the Birmingham area, where Mondale, aided by black Mayor Richard Arlington, trounced him by 2 to 1. In Georgia, where Mondale was supported by Coretta Scott King and State Senator Julian Bond, blacks cast 70% of their ballots for Jackson, 24% for the former Vice President...
...work was that of a brand name without a product. "Hitchcock" might suggest a certain kind of movie-suspenseful, shocking, grimly humorous-but one that was known secondhand, through the imitations of Brian De Palma, François Truffaut, Stanley Donen, John Carpenter, the James Bond series and a hundred gory slasher movies (the deformed children of Psycho). Now young viewers can enjoy the original Hitchcocks, all of which play variations on a favorite theme: the need for a guilty person to be discovered as the perpetrator of his real or imagined crime...
...University pulled about $300 million of the endowment out of stock investments in December, bringing down the ratio of stock investments to bond and cash investments to 50-50 from 80-20 after scoring $700 million in 1982's strong bull market...
Cabot said the company maintains the equal ratio, and has shifted most of the bond investments into short-term notes, meaning that the roughly $1.3 billion of the endowment in bonds can be moved around more quickly...
...certificates offer several key attractions. Like U.S. Savings Bonds, zeros sell for less than their face value and are much cheaper than conventional bonds. For example, for $4,000 an investor can purchase a zero-coupon certificate that pays 11% interest and is guaranteed to mature to $100,000 in 30 years. Through compounding, the principal and interest grow into that amount over the life of the bond. By contrast, the interest on a coupon bond is periodically paid out rather than compounded, so the investment does not balloon in value...