Word: cutoffs
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...which they had been crossing the Jordan. But the move was only symbolic. The Israelis put up no barriers, nor did they take down the receiving tents in which returning refugees have been greeted with orangeade and light lunches before getting free transportation to their homes. Despite the official cutoff, the bridges were still open; the refugees were still coming back...
...quietly withhold some flashy weapons, such as tanks and guns. But minor hardware and spare parts are the crucial materials which must be withheld in order to pressure the regime into calling elections. Opponents of a serious cutoff (Talbot is among them) offer three basic arguments; it could weaken the Greek defense, and hence, NATO; it could lead to civil war; and it is unnecessary since the junta is already moving to wards a new constitution...
...quietly shifted his allegiance from Red China to Russia, which is far more able to afford North Korea's aid requirements. Along the way, his government is going deeper and deeper into hock to Russia; without Russian fuel, all North Korean jets would be grounded and a complete cutoff in aid would probably cripple the country. Kim has also made a bitter enemy of Peking; wall posters have denounced him as "a traitor to the worker class and a disciple of Khrushchev" -a Communist leader that Kim could never abide...
...distaste for capital-gains taxes of up to 25%, the swap enables him to pool his shares with similar owners of other stocks and profit from diversification. So successful has the idea been that 26 swap funds are now operating, and 13 more were registered before the cutoff...
...securities worth $25,800,000. Berger's idea has been widely copied. Boston's Vance, Sanders & Co. operates four funds currently worth $311.2 million. Pittsburgh Fund Manager John F. Donahue, 42, a West Point graduate and onetime SAC pilot, will, with six new funds registered before the cutoff date, soon be overseeing 13 swaps with a total of $500 million in them...