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 Alan Bond (businessman) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an Australian business man. At one time very wealthy, he has also been controversial.
Bond was awarded the accolade of Australian of the Year in 1978.
Bond was originally jailed in August 1996 for a $15 million charge involving the Manet painting La Promenade.
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 AdelaideNow... Alan Bond bounces back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bond is set to publicly list a South African-based diamond company on a UK stock exchange and a Madagascar-based oil business on the New York Stock Exchange.
Bond is understood to spend three months of the year in Australia, three months in London and six months travelling.
Bond said in the interview he was desperate to keep a low profile.
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The role of the orthodox church in maintaining greek ethnic and cultural identity during the 400 years of ottoman rule, strengthened the bond between religion and the state.
Siobhan donaghy left the band prior to this, during a promotional tour in japan in 2001, originally stating that she wished to pursue in fashion, but later revealing she had become depressed and felt isolated in the group, due to the strong bond between mutya and keisha.
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 Babson College - Alan Bond
Bond's yachting attributes, however, might just as well be applied to his business acumen, for Alan Bond is almost certainly the best known and most successful Australian business leader in the global arena.
Its real estate activities range from the Bond Centre in Hong Kong and development of major prime-site commercial ventures in Sidney and Perth to the development of the famous St. George Hospital in London and the St. Moritz Hotel in New York.
Bond International Gold (BIG) is a globally-based gold mining company with operating properties in North American, South American, and Australia.
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 ABC Business News - 12/02/01 : Bond trial begins in SA
Bond trial begins in SA The trial to recover $13 million from failed businessman Alan Bond, his two sons and his accountant, has begun in the South Australian Supreme Court.
It is alleged that an art gallery in London was used as a front to remove the artworks from Australia and the new owner of the artworks was Alan Bond's son Craig.
It was then alleged that Craig and Alan Bond's Swiss-based agent Jurg Bolag, proceeded to sell the art works for their true value and the funds came back to the Bond family through a complex and roundabout series of transactions involving overseas shelf companies and foreign banks.
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 How the law protects corporate property Australian businessman Alan Bond walks free from jail (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bond was originally jailed in August 1996 for a $15 million swindle involving the Manet painting La Promenade.
In the meantime, in 1995 Bond and his family bought him out of bankruptcy, using about $12 million they had salted away in trusts to pay off creditors who were owed some $1.8 billion.
Legally, as a convicted corporate criminal, Bond cannot be a director or be involved in the management of a company, public or private, for five years.
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 Bond comeback bid raises eyebrows in UK - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News
News that disgraced Australian businessman Alan Bond is planning to publicly list a South African-based diamond company on a UK stock exchange has raised eyebrows in London.
While the exact involvement of the bond family in the ventures is not known, The Times said Bond's son, Craig, was named as an executive director in a corporate presentation for the floatation of the diamond company, Lesotho Diamond Corporation.
Alan Bond went bankrupt in 1992 and later, in 1997, pleaded guilty to a $1.2 billion fraud involving his takeover of Bell Resources.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2006/12/20/1166290612293.html   (302 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alan Bond (businessman)
Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an Australian businessman famous for a high-profile business ventures.
In 1987, Bond purchased Vincent Van Gogh's renowned painting, Irises, for $54 million — at the time a world record for a single painting.
Since 2004, interests related to the Bond family have held (non-voting) shares in Madagascar Oil (which he cofounded with Sam Malin and Robert Nelson).
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 Bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
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 Green Left - Regular Feature: Nostradamus' Media Watch
Bankrupt businessman Alan Bond is brought before the courts yet again when his missing IQ is found in Perth by two schoolboys fishing in the Swan River.
Bond had been using the “Reagan doctrine” as defence in court: that he was unable to recall anything, due to his having lost his memory with the disappearance of about half of his alleged 150 IQ points.
Bond and his legion of lawyers are severely embarrassed at both the discovery of the missing IQ, and the fact that it adds up to only 101 IQ points.
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 Alan Bond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
David Thomason, former chief of police at Rockport, was hired by Mayor Alan Dillavou and confirmed by the city council.
Alan Bond: The Planetarium is a response to the form, dimensions and dark of Castle Vault.
It develops ideas about space that have informed Alan Bond's recent paintings in which eroded, scuffed and...
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 Tony Oates Poland to extradite former associate of Alan Bond wanted for embezzlement
A Polish court had authorised the businessman's extradition in August 2000, but that ruling was appealed.
Bond himself was released from prison in March 2000 after serving more than three years for illegally transferring more than a billion Australian dollars from Perth-based company Bell Resources to his troubled Bond Corp.
A former Bond Corp director, Oates was arrested in Gdansk in October 1996 and released on bail seven months later.
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Bond was the owner of Australia II when it won the yacht race off Rhode Island in September 1983, the first team from outside the US to do so.
Bond served almost four years’ jail from 1997 to 2000, for stripping about A$1.2 billion from Bell Resources, in what was Australia’s biggest corporate fraud.
Bond and his former wife Eileen will be among the America’s Cup syndicate who will be guests of the AFL on Grand Final day.
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 The Super Pit | Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines
Bond saw open cut was needed, started it and it grew and grew.
Where small operations had once controlled the famous Golden Mile, WA businessman Alan Bond started buying up the individual leases to create one big company and one big pit, from which gold could be extracted at far less cost.
Bond's company failed to complete the takeover but, in 1989, the entire area was combined.
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 Alan Bond (businessman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Bond (born April 22, 1938) is an Australian businessman famous for high-profile business ventures, including what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history, and for which he was convicted of fraud and sent to jail.
In 1987 he paid $1 billion for the Australia-wide Nine television network from Kerry Packer's PBL before selling it back to PBL in 1990 for $250 million in the midst of his business empire collapsing.
Since 2004, interests related to the Bond family have held non-voting shares in Madagascar Oil, a business he cofounded with Sam Malin and Robert Nelson.
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 hollywood, portmanteau, ladies, toy, happens, stripper, birthday, sonnet, bond, porn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Even today, the celebration of birthdays is not universal in the West; in addition to those people preferring name day celebrations, Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate either, considering them to be paganism festivals along with Christmas and Easter.
The james bond film die another day featured the fictional london underground station of vauxhall cross, a closed station apparently on the piccadilly line and now employed by mi6 as an extension to its hq.
Whether the ten thousand plus features a year produced by the valley porn industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.
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 ASIC gives thumbs up to Alan Bond - Business - Business - smh.com.au (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
DISGRACED businessman Alan Bond has given the clearest indication yet that he plans to return to the boardrooms of Australia for the first time since the collapse of his Bond Corporation empire in the early 1990s.
Via his Perth lawyer, Mr Bond is understood to have obtained clearance from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that he is free to act as a company director.
The ban on Mr Bond acting as a company director or managing companies in Australia was the last constraint on the former America's Cup hero, who was declared bankrupt with debts of more than $500 million in 1992 after the spectacular collapse of his global empire.
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 European Business News 96-08-20
Australian businessman Alan Bond Tuesday was sentenced to three years in jail, following his conviction last week of corporate fraud involving La Promenade, a painting by French impressionist Edouard Manet.
Bond was charged with juggling the ownership of the painting so that his family company, Dallhold Investments Pty Ltd. benefited from its eventual sale.
In sentencing, Judge Antoinette Kennedy referred to Bond's passion for art and his inability to accept that Bond Corp., which he built from nothing, was no longer his 'private fifedom'.
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 Amazon.com: "Alan Bond": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bond Heileman's new boss, Alan Bond, was no stranger to multimillion dollar operations.
Australian tycoon Alan Bond poses in 1989 with van Gogh's Irises.
ALAN BOND Heileman's new boss, Alan Bond, was no stranger to multimillion dollar operations.
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 Brokering puts Alan Bond back in money - Breaking News - National - Breaking News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Disgraced Australian businessman Alan Bond is set to make a second fortune from brokering foreign mining and energy projects.
Success may have already paid off since it is understood Mr Bond chartered a 70 metre luxury yacht to carry family and friends on a six-week cruise through the Mediterranean.
Mr Bond went bankrupt in 1992 and later, in 1997, pleaded guilty to a $1.2 billion fraud involving his takeover of Bell Resources.
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 Alan Bond back in business | PerthNow
DISGRACED businessman Alan Bond has rejoined the world of the super-rich, enjoying luxury cruises and finalising plans to float companies on Wall Street and in the UK.
Mr Bond is set to publicly list a South African-based diamond company on a UK stock exchange and a Madagascar-based oil business on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mr Bond is understood to spend three months of the year in Australia, three months in London and six months travelling.
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 Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer
In 1987 he sold his two Channel Nine TV stations to businessman Alan Bond for one billion dollars.
Three years later, Bond was in financial trouble and Kerry bought the stations back for just 250 million dollars.
His greatest love is polo and he spent three months of every year in England playing the game and millions of dollars on horses, stables and players for his own team.
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 php-deluxe.net - description STW 9
In the late 1980 s it became owned by Bond Media, owned by infamous businessman Alan Bond (businessman).
When Bond purchased the Nine Network, STW joined the network.
STW-9 is one of only two independently-owned metro affiliates of the Nine Network; the other is NWS-9 Adelaide, owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting.
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 alan bond | shareshelponlineplus-website.info
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He secures the future of the free world by yachting in the Aegean and nurturing meaningful relationships with women, of course.
Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an Australian businessman famous both for high-profile business ventures and for criminal offences associated with the collapse of his company.
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 Bond & mortgage (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In the case of an ionic bond that unequal distribution is extreme.
A common misconception among some investors is that bonds and bond funds have...
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 Latitude 38 - The Endeavour
Sailor/businessman Alan Bond - of '83 A-Cup fame - soon took up the challenge, offering to fund the ambitious project in grand style.
Endeavour's keel was laid in the Bicentennial Year of 1988, in a Fremantle shipyard with a specially-designed gallery so passersby could observe the progress day by day.
When Bond went bust two years later, however, work temporarily came to a halt.
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 The man who changed the face of cricket : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
His greatest business coup came when he sold Channel Nine to Perth businessman Alan Bond for just over a billion dollars (US$750 million) in 1987, only to buy it back at a quarter of the price when Bond hit hard times three years later.
But high-profile Australians ranging from Prime Minister John Howard to News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch were at pains to point out that behind the brash exterior was a family man given to acts of great generosity.
Packer was coy about his gambling habits but they still became the stuff of legend.
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No Bond Sought for Slain Pastor's Wife, Mary Winkler, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her husband, waives her right to a...
The term covalent bond is used to describe the bonds in compounds that result...
Master Bond manufactures epoxy, silicones, uv curables and polyurethane adhesives, sealants, coatings and potting compounds for electronic, medical,...
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