Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
Ways and Means Committee officials say the tax-free bond market is overcrowded by colleges, hospitals, and other institutions seeking to raise funds cheaply. This scenario has driven interest rates higher and squeezed smaller colleges out of the bond market. While state authorities discredit this analysis, Harvard officials have essentially assented to it and have not lobbied heavily against the reforms. And everyone agrees that current laws contain moneymaking loopholes which many universities exploit...
With nearly $600 million of debt outstanding, Harvard ranks as the all-time college leader in issuing bonds. University officials freely admit that Harvard earns windfall profits by investing revenues from their bond sales. They also concede that selling tax-free bonds to pay for the profit earning Medical Area Total Energy Plant may not be totally ethical. But here again the university has broken no law, but rather simply followed the leads of other schools; in fact, Harvard has been relatively slow to exploit the bond market in comparison to ther colleges...
...minute question and answer session following Bond's Law School Forum speech, the senator fielded questions on subjects ranging from the Ku Klux Klan--whose immediate danger he dismissed--to unwed teenage pregnancies, which he addressed as a minority issue...
Asked whether there should be a Black presidential candidate, Bond said, "It's not about time...