Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will soon begin to hit consumers in their pocketbooks. The government has instituted emergency measures that include increasing the costs of fuel and food prices from 12% to 19%, raising value-added sales taxes from 12% to 15% and placing an additional 2% tax on stock and bond sales. The government is also levying a $26 charge on people traveling overseas...
...Bond says he's sorry more people haven't experienced what he offers.Though the absolutely silent reading room (no pens allowed, only pencil's is usually in use he says."The Harvard faculty doesn't take as much advantage of the library as it might. Under graduates, however have wandered in with increasing regularity recently, he says, and now comprise about 15 percent of those who use facility...
...farewell address to his co-workers this spring. Bond tried to express his determination to help others enjoy his life's work. He quotedfrom a speech given in 1822 by Joseph Green Cogswell, then librarian of Harvard Cogswell described the importance of a great library-one whichhas the book you need even if you are the only one who wants it for a hundred years...
Cogswell made specific reference to an extraordinary book in the Harvard collection Hearne's Acta Apostolorum, one of a total printing of 120volumes. Bond borrowed the example for his speech, but decided that it would be tun to find the book as well. His search in Widener ended successfully, as usual...
...small, ornately bound volume yielded" a special electricshock," says Bond, turning it over in his hands. He discovered immediately that it was one of the books given to Harvard in the 1760s by Thomas Hollis V "That's why this has been a good career," says William Bond...