Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large part of their financial security. From a computer-filled command post on the twelfth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank building in Boston, LeBaron manages more than $10 billion of other people's money. Every day, LeBaron and his competitors make stock and bond transactions that can earn, or lose, millions of dollars for their clients. Their decisions can shake markets and send the prices of individual stocks into orbits or nosedives. For their skill and nerve, they receive salaries that sometimes run well into seven figures. LeBaron belongs to an elite corps of independent investment managers entrusted...
Last Wednesday, after 16 months behind bars, a jubilant Geter was set free to applause from a crowd of supporters. Later he celebrated at a Christmas party attended by lawyers, investigators and fellow engineers. His ordeal may not be over, though. He is out on a $10,000 bond put up by E-Systems coworkers. For the charges to be completely dropped, he must pass a lie-detector test. "If he fails the test," says D.A. Wade, "he will have a new trial." And two top prosecutors in Wade's office have been assigned to the case. But Geter...
...well in the end. Though most dramas dealing with real life issues couldn't get away with a script comprised heavily of maudlin reminiscences and bittersweet quarreling, plays like Mame and Same Time, Next Year generally manage to leave their audiences feeling tearful and rejuvenated. Something about the unbreakable bond that links old friends seems to draw a smile from even the crustiest cynic...
...tension that these rivalries create--and the bond that keeps them together--is never developed in the play. When Deidre asks Kit why friendship is so important to her, she answers with seeming disinterest...
Another $950.000 will go to a one-year-old debt stabilization fund, to aid in paying off bond issues...