Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time the disputed word was "inhabitants." The Egyptians wanted it omitted from a joint letter on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to make it clear that autonomy for the two regions applied to the land and not just to its Palestinian inhabitants. The Israelis, who claim a biblical right to settle in what they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed...
...company were to succeed in disposing of its assets in South Africa for a fair, rather than a forced sale price, translating them into loans to the South African government would hardly be an act of disengagement. Indeed, church stockholders who have led the proxy battle to stop U.S. bank loans to the South African government and state-controlled corporations, in the hypothetical case of their succeeding and persuading some company operating in the Republic of South Africa to sell its assets there, only to find it had to trade the proceeds for long-term South African bonds, would surely...
...problems becloud the generally bright landscape. The Hong Kong dollar has lately slipped 8% against the U.S. dollar because the colony suffered from a $1.8 billion trade deficit last year and is experiencing double-digit inflation, caused largely by an influx of foreign investment and a sharp rise in bank loans for Hong Kong's overheated real estate and property development market...
...fellows who reach the top of corporate America's greasy pole, those who make big money as hired managers are a small minority. Down in the trenches, which is anywhere below the senior vice president level, the rewards are moderate and uncertain. A lot of bank vice presidents and middle managers in heavy manufacturing are lucky to crack $35,000; they commonly get a title in lieu of money...
...should be enacted to prevent the disclosure of certain classified information, especially the publication of agents' names that puts their lives as well as their missions in danger. It is surely anomalous that people can receive a prison sentence for releasing data on bank loans, relief rolls or crop statistics, while others can reveal intelligence matters with impunity. At Washington's Dupont Circle, seven miles from CIA headquarters, a group is in business to publish the names of CIA agents abroad. Under the present espionage law, somebody who divulges secrets can be convicted only if it is proved...