Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HANGS SELF AND PET CAT! LENNY MAGRATH'S HORSE STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING! MEG MAGRATH VAMPS CRIPPLED EX-FLAME! BABE MAGRATH BOTRELLE SHOOTS HUSBAND " 'CAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE HIS LOOKS"! A family album of three contentious sisters who laugh and fight and cry and finally surrender to the bond of sororal love. Directed for film by the guy who coaxed Robert Duvall to his Oscar in Tender Mercies. Can't miss...
...proceed to write my Gov paper," I said to myself. I reached into my desk to take out a few sheets of typing paper. But scattered across the top of the ream of Berkshire Bond was an unshuffled, disordered deck of cards...
...After the 1980 election, Meese became Counsellor to the President, a job that carries Cabinet rank. But he shared the inner circle with two other aides, Michael Deaver and James Baker, who ended up wielding more power. Nonetheless, Meese had a special bond with the President. Partly it was based on his keen affinity for Reagan's philosophy and outlook. In addition, his every instinct was to play the role of protector. Unlike Donald Regan, who seems infected with the arrogance of his own power, Meese infuses almost every public utterance with a sense that he is acting only...
Meantime, the raider would make plans with an investment banker to raise the cash or credit needed for the takeover, often by launching a junk-bond issue. With such financial backing lined up, the raider could then announce a bid for the controlling interest in the target company's stock. By then, the necessary holdings might be in the hands of arbitragers, who would be waiting to sell at a still higher price than their own efforts had created...
...those operations are completely legal. But the close proximity of a small core of professional takeover specialists, and their towering importance in the market of the '80s, makes the prospects for collusion virtually endless. Since brokers and junk-bond dealers often know about a raider's plans well in advance of the general public, those professionals have the opportunity to tip off other investors or to make their own profits by trading in the target stock...