Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squeezed by their portfolios' low-yielding loans. Fixed-rate loans have helped to drag down profits at Bank-America, for example, which has some 1,100 branches spread throughout the nation's most populous state. On the other hand, the sky-high rates have devastated the corporate bond market, where major businesses traditionally turn for financing, and forced companies to try to scrape by on short-term credit from banks like Bankers Trust and Chase, which have aggressively sought corporate business. Nationwide, short-term commercial debt has risen by 26.1% in the past six months...
...portrayed the relationship between the South's social code and Black children in the 30s and 40s. She writes very well, however, of the challenging intimacy between herself and her son, Guy. The rest of Maya's life pales in comparison to the poignancy of the mother-son bond. She ends up a loving and concerned mother but a boring social observer...
...leaders banter about their airplanes and cars, but personal wealth is no longer part of the ruling equation, at least as it was centuries ago. The strongest bond is the shared burden of governing. At one juncture of the SALT I negotiations in Moscow nine years ago, to prove how difficult were Nixon's domestic problems with the treaty, Brezhnev was shown a secret cable from U.S. generals protesting the proposed agreement. Brezhnev smiled, and then whispered that he could show American negotiators almost identical dispatches from his own obstinate military...
...plays an American ubermann, an Eagle-Scout of sorts obsessed by the boy's-book values of self-reliance and will power. He's an American hero of camaraderie who withholds himself from the weakening influence of women at the margin of his life for pure commitmentto the mystic bond of men in the wilds. Never defiled by desire, he stays aloof, ordered, and self-possessed, triumphant in his wiry celibacy. He's Hemingway's man, and he's that Dearslayer from James Fenimore Cooper. He's one of the real men you see at the hangout trying...
...Loved Me (Science Center): Sexist violence. You remember which Bond this one was--Barbara Bach, the Pyramids, Jaws--ah, you remember now. Here, let me ruin the beginning for you: he has a parachute...