Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being taken to prison, the three executives were detained at the company's comfortable Bhopal guesthouse, surrounded by 50 armed guards to protect them from possible mob attacks, and cut off from communication with the outside world. After more than six hours, Anderson was released on $2,500 bond and flown to New Delhi, while his colleagues remained in custody. "Somebody has to say that our safety standards in the U.S. are identical to those in India or Brazil or some place else," Anderson said after his release. "Same equipment, same design, same everything...
...addition to the confusion about time, there is the problem of Shylock. King imbues the role with a range of interpretations, making the character truly come to life. He is evil and sly when he demands his "bond." pathetic and desperate when he calls for "revenge," and a maligned and wronged father when persecuted by the younger generation. But, why is he in an electric wheelchair, aside from its being a useful prop with which to propel him around the stage? Shylock is handicapped enough by being a Jew in a Christian society, and the '20s setting emphasizes that such...
...matters little that Jourdan has starred in; films as diverse as Madame Bavary, Can-Can, and the Silver Bears, played everyone from a BBC Dracula to a sinister would-be James Bond nemesis in Octopussy. For anyone who has ever seen the MGM movie classic Gigi, Louis Jourdan is Gaston, the inveterate playboy with interminable ennui. To fixate momentarily on his Gallic features summons up visions of Jourdan-Gaston beside the original Honore (Maurice Chevalier) forever repeating. "It's a bore...
Unlike the MDC, which is responsible to and funded by the Commonwealth, a new sewer commission would have the authority to finance itself through bond issues and levies on all users of the sewage system...
With a yearly budget of about $6 million, the management company costs Harvard substantially less than an outside investment service. And it has generally kept up with or surpassed the overall performance of stock and and bond markets. In 1982-3, the management company scored $700 million in gains for Harvard, but last year it lost $100 million...