Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever his politics...
...allows. "The central plan will make only a rough estimate. The previous system was nonsensical precisely because it tried to determine future trends without knowing what the technological trends would be." Now central planners will only advise the banks about the climate of investment to guide them in their credit policies. Instead of handing out fat subsidies as in the past, the Czech central bank will charge 6% interest on capital loans-a price that should "make plant managers all the more concerned to develop in the right direction. Already the Czechs have established Western-style business-administration schools...
...West to canoe?") and at the governor for not cleaning up the river. The politics of the Hudson River pollution are more complicated than anyone involved cares to say, and establishing a control system will be difficult. But believe it -- the river stinks. O'Connor brought reporters to the bank near a ferry landing at Yonkers earlier in the day, and all present sniffed the water, gaily colored from gasoline dumping, as it slid by under a strangely orange afternoon...
After the local bank's skillful sleuthing, Kruse might well be pleased. In Michigan, as elsewhere, the law spells out in detail the order in which the property of a person who dies intestate is to be distributed among his surviving relatives, including spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers and sisters, their children and the decedent's cousins-on past fourth cousins. Kruse had never married, and his spinster sister Ann had died years before. After long digging, the bankers finally traced his nearest kin: six cousins, whom Ottawa County Probate Judge Fred Miles duly named Kruse...
...giving nationalized industry predominance in the British economy for the first time. The decline of demand, employment and profits has eroded investor confidence. Prices on the London stock exchange fell to 1966 lows last week, down 22% since June. The pound, too, slipped on world money markets, and the Bank of England had to come to its aid once more with support purchasing...