Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of the new setbacks occurred last July when the Washington Public Power Supply System, or WPPSS (more widely known by the satiric sobriquet of "Whoops"), defaulted on $2.25 billion worth of bonds. The consortium of 23 electric companies, which had postponed or canceled construction of four of its five proposed nuclear power plants, had sold the securities to help finance two of the facilities. The WPPSS default, the biggest municipal bond failure in history, shook financial markets and raised questions about the ability of utilities to manage nuclear plant construction...
...improved status shows that the city is a safer debtor and could save about $160,000 in interest during its next bond sale, City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday...
Cambridge will find it easier and cheaper to borrow money, since the Standard and Poor's Corporation bond rating service upped the city's credit rating from BBB + to A -, city officials said yesterday...
...work is not finished. We have more to do in creating jobs, achieving control over Government spending . . . keeping peace in a more settled world." That can only be accomplished if there is a bond between President and people, "the real heroes of American democracy . . . You were magnificent as we pulled the nation through the long night of our national calamity...
...show's producers and the president and officers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals 1984's woman of the Year, John Rivers will be presented with her award at the Hasty Pudding on February 15 following a parade through Cambridge. The Man of the Year, Sean Connery of James Bond fame, will be given his award at the first performance on February...