Palestinian shopkeeper Nadia Hazboun said the security situation in the West Bank is much better than a few years ago, when there was fighting with Israel and militants ruled the streets.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Basel is a city in Switzerland, where the Bank for International Settlements is.

巴塞尔是瑞士的一个城市,国际清算银行就在那里

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The Fed has never given loans to anyone other than a depository institution that is a bank until last month, except they did so in the Depression.

上个月，联邦政府已经开始限制贷款业务,除了银行以外的其他金融机构,休想再放出一分钱的贷款，也就是在萧条时政府才会这么做。

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We hope that there is good progress." Israel is offering a partial settlement freeze: construction on 3,000 housing units in the West Bank will continue, but no new projects will be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The thought was that the central bank is guarding the money stock and governments have a tendency to sometimes want to raid the bank when they're in trouble.

观点是,中央银行在保护金融债券,而政府当看到,银行陷入困境时,有查抄这家银行的倾向。

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The Palestinian divisions pose a major obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which is the stated goal of the peace process sponsored by the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

The other thing is moral hazard -this is that companies, once they borrow money from anybody, a bank or anyone else, they have an obligation, which is fixed in dollar terms.

另一个问题是道德风险,意思是说,一旦公司借了钱,无论是从银行还是其他渠道,他们就背负了一种义务,金钱的义务

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Israeli officials say one way they are trying to ease water shortages in the West Bank is by pushing a project along with Jordan to channel water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01