Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First, Begin wanted the Gulf of Aqaba to be referred to as Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations, be called by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria was something else. Without this change he could not sign, insisted the Premier. He clamped his jaw. The Knesset had approved the treaty with the biblical terms, explained Begin. Inured to such tactics, Carter...
...approval, as had previously been the rule. Rockefeller claimed that projects funded by moral obligation bonds would pay for themselves, but because the government invested them in non-revenue producing projects, they did not. When the Urban Development Corporation defaulted on its moral obligation bonds in February 1975, no bank would lend the city any more money...
...three banks involved are the Detroit Bank Corporation, Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit, and the Rainier Ban corporation of Seattle...
...directing westerns, which in those days often starred such authentic outlaws as Al Jennings and Emmett Dalton, last of the legendary family gang. Tilghman was on location in Chandler, Okla., when word came that a wild bunch headed by Henry Starr (Belle's nephew) had robbed a bank in Stroud, 17 miles away. The director dropped his camera, grabbed his gun and rode off in pursuit of the miscreants, capturing one "Alibi Joe" Davis before resuming work on his picture. The incident was typical of the way reality and legends based on that reality were mixed...
Landlords should be making at least a 10 to 12 per cent return on investments," Charles Laverty, city assessor, said last week. "Under rent control, the return has been less than six per cent, less than what you would get by putting your money in the bank," he added...