Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Joseph C. Wilson, builder of Xerox Corp., was fond of observing that if his company continued to grow at the meteoric rates of the 1960s, its sales would soon exceed the U.S. gross national product. The implication of that self-evident absurdity: Xerox's growth would have to slow; and it has now come true. Last year the company posted record revenues of $4 billion, but its profits suffered their first decline -a gossamer 1.8% before write-offs, to $342 million-since 1951, when Xerox was a small photographic-paper maker, known as the Haloid Co., in Rochester...
Soviet officials are also impressed. Says one: "We do not have entirely fond memories of Ambassador Kennan himself [the Kremlin declared him persona non grata after he denounced Stalinism in 1953], but we regard the formation of his institute as a positive development." Indeed, the Russians feel that in the Institut Imyeni Kennana the U.S. finally has a worthy counterpart to Moscow's U.S.A. Institute-a think tank for Americanologists in the Soviet Union...
...imminent split-up were rife. The split was headed off only, acquaintances insist, because the Queen intervened and urged Margaret and Tony to go their own ways as discreetly as possible. Friends found that entertaining the two, when they did get together, could be painful. Margaret had become especially fond of gin-and-tonics. She would at times airily ignore Tony. When he invited guests to Kensington Palace, she would breeze through the room, stopping long enough only to cast a chill on the festivities. To many Britons who had learned to love the impish princess in her younger days...
Scott says he is still fond of France, but living abroad "makes you more conscious of being an American. Anyone who says it does not is full of horseshit...
...robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight"). After studying S.L.A. tapes and writings, Singer decided that these particular messages were probably read by Patty from scripts prepared by Angela Atwood, an S.L.A. ideologue fond of bombast and complex phrasing, who was killed in the fiery Los Angeles Shootout...