Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefcase can even be used as a shield. Its tough synthetic fabric will withstand a .357 magnum bullet. To stymie any attempts to steal all this James Bond gadgetry, there is also an alarm that will sound six seconds after the case is ripped from the owner's grasp...
Tony and Gisela Bloom, an attractive South African couple making the London-Venice run, compared the v.s.O.E. to the Blue Train, which runs between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown and is considered one of the world's most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...
...deeply as at the time of Anwar Sadat's assassination. "It was not just a sorrow, the sympathy that you have for someone well known," Reagan says. "There was a feeling of personal loss. That was when I first began to realize that there is a bond when you meet these people...
...whence cometh my strength. In my case, it is absolutely true." His college years stand out now more in his mind as he looks back. "It was a small school, and it was during the depths of the Depression. I think now I can see that there was a bond among our people. I worry that younger people don't realize how those times will be in their own lives, how close they'll remain with them...
...City firm that specialized in trading government securities. Though Lombard-Wall had only 55 employees, it had run up staggering debts, including $45 million owed to Chase Manhattan Bank. Chase was already reeling from an after-tax loss of $117 million that resulted from its dealings with another government bond dealer, Drysdale Government Securites, which went bankrupt in May. The reasons for Lombard-Wall's problems were unclear, but one possible explanation was that the firm had guessed wrong on the direction of interest-rate movements and sustained heavy trading losses...