This solid franchise continues to ensure Bond, be it Connery or Craig, is on-brand from his tuxedos to his technological toys to his lady friends.

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Mr Berlusconi said Italy had "solid economic foundations" and called the recent fall in bond yields a "crisis of faith in the international markets".

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The Japanese brands of Seiko and Citizen were booking solid sales year after year, why even the film character James Bond has ceased wearing a Swiss timepiece in favor of a Pulsar or Seiko Digital Quartz watch.

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Its bond yields have soared in comparison with (hardly rock-solid) Russian federal Eurobonds (see chart).

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Good and strong and solid like they were in the book, with a weird and unexpected bond forming between the two.

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Indeed, Klotz remembers the bond collapse of the early 1980s, when munis from some solid issuers traded at 50 cents on the dollar.

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