Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Arab leader to encourage Palestinian refugees to come out of their camps, get themselves jobs, and take part in the life of the land. But there are no longer any jobs left. Unemployment already stood at 14% before the war, has now hit 25%. Last year, the west bank of the Jordan brought in well over half of the nation's foreign-currency earnings. Without it, Jordan stands to lose most of its tourist earnings of $35 million a year...
...planes. Three-quarters of Jordan's tanks were lost in the fighting, most of them knocked out by Israeli jets. Official casualty figures list more than 6,000 soldiers killed or missing-but there is evidence that perhaps 5,000 of them are hiding out on the west bank, waiting for a chance to steal across the river and return to Amman. Despite his pleas for military aid from the West, Hussein says that he has got no specific commitments from either the U.S. or Britain. Hussein is far from happy with the way the war was fought. "There...
...built up an ever more costly welfare system, propped up its inefficient agriculture and high-cost coal mines with vast subsidies. That spending spree, matched by consumers and fueled by galloping wage increases, kept prices moving steeply upward. When the alarmed Bundesbank stepped in with sharply higher interest rates, bank credit became so scarce and expensive that industrial expansion fell sharply, and some cautious manufacturers began shortening their work week. The ensuing downturn helped to topple Ludwig Erhard's government last year...
Except for the Dark Ages, when prices fell for 600 years, the value of money has generally diminished. Last year was no exception, as Manhattan's First National City Bank reports in its annual survey of the shrinking worth of currencies...
Revenue & Relief. Recently, at a ceremony on the Jupiá dam site, Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) was presented with a loan of $34 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. But 70% of the Urubupungá project was home financed. In fact, a reason for building two dams instead of one was to keep finances within reach: getting Jupiá into production fast will relieve the power shortage even while it produces revenue to build the second...