Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab family. "Whoever heard of private families owning water sources," says Afik more in amusement than anger. "At first the Arabs didn't want to sell us the water, but we negotiated." It was not a particularly good bargain for Kallia: the settlement pays the Arabs 80 per cubic meter, roughly four times the area's going rate. But part of the nahalniks' difficult job is to show the local Arabs that living with Israelis can be good for everyone...
...price of gold in Paris last week shot to well over $46 per oz., the highest in two decades. That upsurge reflected, more than anything, smoldering fears about the future of the franc. The spark that started the rise, however, was President Nixon's call two weeks ago for "new approaches" to international monetary problems. It was only an offhand remark, but French speculators misinterpreted it as a sign that Nixon might favor a rise in the price of gold or some basic revamping of currency values. When the President discusses money matters in Europe this week, he will...
Land prices are nearing record levels, and choice industrial sites sell for $23 per square foot, more than ten times the price of comparable U.S. industrial sites. About 140 U.S. firms have moved their offices from Japan to Hong Kong, and foreign investors have been attracted by the fact that the colony has no capital gains tax and a maximum tax on gross income of only 15%. Wages remain low, averaging $13.50 for a 50-hour week, but per capita annual income has risen in three years from...
body, keep it afloat like a boat. They are connected by a jointed shaft that per mits the Coot to flex with the terrain...
Miss Seligson said that a later poll conducted in Adams, Winthrop, and Lowell indicated that 25 per cent of the members in those Houses would give up their present rooms for Cliffies...