Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most World Bank money goes to the low-income areas," he said. "Except for the poorest countries, Haiti, Bolivia and Honduras, most of Latin America is considered middle-income," even though the per capita income is not much above the $500 level that the World Bank uses for determining middle-income status, he said...
...spectacled Harvard alumnus laid his tweed jacket and his program on the grassy bank of the Charles and glanced smilingly out towards the river, the stage of the events he had come to witness. Suddenly, his look turned from one of quiet contentment to furrowed consternation. Squinting his eyes and pushing his glasses halfway into his cornea, he confirmed his suspicions; "Damned if those aren't women out there rowing with men in the same Harvard boat...
Southern California single-family building permits in August dropped by nearly half, from 7,941 to 3,754, compared with the same month of last year. San Bernardino County, in the Los Angeles suburbs, reports its first housing oversupply since 1973-74, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco says it is experiencing the largest decline in mortgage lending in 2½ years...
Terror stalked the Ohio State University campus last year. Between August and October, four female students were abducted, forced to cash a check or use a bank card to obtain money, then driven to a rural area and raped. Acting on a mysterious phone tip and a mug-shot identification by one victim, police in Columbus arrested William Milligan, 23. At first the suspect seemed like a classic young offender: physically abused as a child, cashiered from the Navy after one month, constantly in trouble with employers and police. That familiar portrait changed suddenly during a psychological exam. When...
...play sometimes seems as richly secretive as a bank vault, Michael Kahn's obtuse direction fails to supply the cast with the 'combination that would unlock its hidden treasures. As a coarse, blustery doctor whose best medicine is home truth, Louis Zorich does manage to establish a comic territorial imperative...