Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both sides that the Palestinians should be allowed to participate in determining their own future, and that the Palestinian problem must be solved "in all its aspects." Begin has budged slightly from his previous position, but still wants to restrict Palestinian participation to those living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sadat insists on including those in the diaspora; otherwise, he argues, the problem cannot be solved "in all its aspects." The Aswan summit language, say the Egyptians, is the "fig leaf that Sadat must have if he hopes to make bilateral negotiations respectable in the eyes of his doubting...
...Egyptians did a 90° turn in their policy by coming here and offering us peace. We did a 90° turn by going all the way toward them in Sinai and some of the way in the West Bank. People always claim that from a security point of view, perhaps we are exaggerating. I would like to remind you that we are 3 million, surrounded by about 100 million. It's very interesting to be part of a 3 million population surrounded directly by 70 million to 80 million and be branded an aggressor...
...candidate likely to poll 300,000 votes more than the strongest Laban candidate. But many political observers doubt those findings, arguing that Aquino, for one, should surely be among the top vote getters. Various straw polls taken at such institutions as the University of the Philippines and the Central Bank, moreover, show that Laban may even have an overall lead...
...miniboom in New Stanton real estate. Eighty-four new apartment units have been built, with another 96 on the way. Some land in the surrounding countryside (mostly used for dairy farming) has sold recently for as much as $7,500 an acre, up 50% in five years. Two new banks have arrived in New Stanton to compete with the long established Mellon Bank branch. "And we got a dentist," adds Mayor John Reagan. "Something we never had before." Mail volume through the town post office has increased by 30% during the past year. Postmaster Henry Springer hopes that New Stanton...
Greenfeld writes in a small, phoneless office over a bank on the main street in Pacific Palisades. "It's a full-service bank. I use their Xerox machine, and in an emergency the branch manager takes messages." The writing day can often be interrupted by the need to pick up Noah at his special school or drive him to the day care center that Foumi organized and directs as a volunteer. For a writer it is sometimes an untenable position. "But then," says Greenfeld, "life itself is an untenable position...