Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bond markets, conditions were even worse, as prices plunged. The Reserve Bank's clampdown came at a particularly bad time for the U.S. Treasury. It auctioned $6.75 billion in long-term bonds and notes last week, and the jump in interest rates meant that the Government was forced to offer investors considerably more than had been anticipated: 14.56% on ten-year notes and 13.99% on 30-year bonds. In February ten-year notes were being sold at 12.89% interest...
...jumped 5000% in the past decade, to more than 24,000 a year.) The Careys an nounced last week that they will apply for a multiple annulment. That involves presenting evidence before a diocesan tribunal consisting of a judge, aided by a canon lawyer, called defender of the bond, who tries to block the annulment. These days the process has been streamlined in the U.S. Even with appeals it rarely takes more than a year...
...composition of savings. Money invested in a house is good for the housing industry, but it does not do much to improve productivity. Such currently fashionable investments as Krugerrands, rare stamps and antiques provide no benefits at all for economic growth. By contrast, money put in a stock, bond or bank account swells the pool of financial capital available to business. As investment money becomes more plentiful, interest rates decline, investment picks up and real wealth begins to increase for the nation as a whole...
...Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves to New York-an anambiguous ending if ever there...
...Johnston, special counsel for the city, said after yesterday's hearings. He added that the mayor wants greater control over school spending and the council's authorization to borrow money for both the school deficit and property tax abatements. The mayor's latest counterproposal asks for a $45 million bond issue...