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...while, most Maine residents regarded the Indians' case as a trifle. But it began to seem a lot less trifling last October, when lawyers refused to certify some local bond issues because title to land in the localities involved was clouded by the Indian suit. The bonds are selling again, but some hostility persists in what some Down Easters describe as a "whiteneck" backlash. Says Maine's popular Republican Congressman William Cohen, who is anxious to run soon for either Senator or Governor: "It's not politically feasible to be liberal on this issue. The notion that...
Administration economists, and a good many outside experts, regard such views as alarmist. Still, the widespread talk about inflation has already hurt the financial markets. Stock prices in the first two months of the year fell 7% and trading volume declined by 25% from a year earlier. The bond market has been sagging, too, causing a rise in interest rates. Last week, for example, double-A utility bonds were selling at a yield of 8.35%, v. 7.8% in late December...
...blather about vibrations and kharmas--very, very funny. Yet what makes their two characters engaging and moving is the way they work together. If not a natural team, they both have become real pros and know how to make the audience believe in the kind of wacky bond that Tracy and Hepburn used to form...
...federal government ordered Cambridge to rebuild its sewer system, which was deemed inadequate in several places. The Cambridge city council passed a $15.2 million bond issue to fund the project that year...
...trio spends most of American Buffalo planning to burglarize the apartment of a coin collector who has recently appeared in the shop. But the men are gradually undone by their own inertia, mistrust and ineptitude. The job never conies off. At the end they draw together in a fragile bond of shared futility, human castoffs alongside the inanimate ones...