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...vigorous Amman-based banking house, controlled by Palestinians, with assets of $4 billion and branches or joint ventures in 19 countries, including the U.S. The Arab Bank is widely known in the Middle East as the P.L.O. Bank, but its Jerusalem-born president, Abdel Majeed Shoman, 65, is handsomely repaid for whatever risks he may take in helping his fellow Palestinians invest their growing wealth. During the height of the Lebanese fighting, for instance, Shoman's Beirut branch was heavily guarded by Arafat's fighters. While many of Beirut's 79 other banks were being burned...
Yankelovich sees "the gradual evolution of a new implied contract between parents and their children." In his view, Traditionalists-the 57% of parents committed to stricter child rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense of obligation." The New Breed message: "We will not sacrifice for you, because we have our own lives to lead. But when you are grown, you owe us nothing...
...time you pay, but next time I pay." Once, on the way to a movie, a pickpocket stole her money. Rather than admit this to her escort, she fled and later took out a small loan at a bank; she was "ashamed to report," notes Witke, that she never repaid...
...that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia-that are considered potential problem debtors. The Zaïrian debacle increases doubts about how much of the Third World debt will continue to be repaid...
...soaring oil prices that helped depress the economies of his copper-buying customers and multiplied Zaïre's import bills. But there is more to the Zaïre story than that. Mobutu, who styles himself le Guide (the guide), also sank borrowed money-to be repaid out of copper revenues he did not get-into showy prestige projects...