Word: gur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world, the drivers were probably lucky to have reached the Allenby Bridge at all, much less in two weeks. Said Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "I'm not sure I would have driven those buses through Jordan. Maybe the [pro-Iraqi] Jordanians would have confiscated the buses and turned the drivers into soldiers...
...economy on the left exists at every level of Soviet society. For city dwellers the private economy provides plumbers, clothes and even legal services through the homemade advertisements that cover billboards. Farmers go underground to get tools or fertilizers that are unavailable in the regular economy. Economist Gur Ofer, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, calculates that up to 12% of the average citizen's income derives from the private economy and that 18% of all consumer expenditures are made there...
Throughout history, controls have seemed a tempting quick fix for inflation. Nearly 40 centuries ago, the Babylonian King Hammurabi established wage and price limits. They set, for example, the annual wage of a field worker at eight gur (75 bu.) of corn and that of a herdsman at six gur (56.25 bu.). The Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...