Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflation outlook has grown bleaker, and the Carter Administration has prepared a budget-swelling 5.4% rise, above and beyond inflation, in defense spending for the fiscal year beginning in October. Largely because investors expect more inflation, Wall Street's trillion-dollar corporate a nd Government bond market last week took its biggest pummeling in years. Investors buy bonds to collect interest, but when the inflation rate is higher than the interest rate, the resale value of the bonds goes down. During the week, bond prices plunged through the floor, and interest rates rose to an unprecedented level of nearly...
...high turnover. But some localities are trying to improve life for the renter. Wichita needs 30,000 workers over the next three years to keep its economy booming, and city fathers recognized that recruiting them would be easier if they had places to live. The city floated a revenue bond issue last April and used the proceeds to make loans at interest rates between 8.5% and 9% available to builders of five rental projects. Spurred by low-interest money, rental construction has surged. The vacancy rate has moved up from one-fifth of 1% last August, but it is still...
Sunshine's 15-year bonds will be sold in $1,000 denominations next March, through underwriters Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. The company can redeem them in cash or bulk on. The amount of silver backing the bonds will be related to the spot-market price of the metal on the day of issue. But if, for example, each bond has 20 oz. of silver behind it, when it is redeemed the holder will receive $1,000 or the value of 20 oz. of silver, whichever is greater. The advantage to Sunshine, which recently escaped a bloody takeover attempt...
...reliability of the White House crystal ball. Most private analysts see prices increasing at about 11% this year, assuming that a mild economic downturn occurs. Without any recession, inflation may repeat last year's 13%. Reacting to the worry that worse economic news is yet to come, bond prices last week slumped dramatically and yields rose to levels even higher than those set after the Federal Reserve's credit tightening last October...
...himself early on to the tightly-knit parallel construction and works well within this simple framework--the shopping scene and the breakfast scenes are terrific; but details go unexplored. Why doesn't Ted hire someone to take care of the kid? The bulk of the film develops the growing bond between Ted and Billy. All this time, Joanna presumably ests out in California making love to real estate developers and talking with $500-an-hour shrinks. She disappears from New York with $2000 and a leather purse...18 months later, she is back, a sportswear designer making...