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All Palestine refugees in Jordan have full Jordanian citizenship with the exception of about 120,000 refugees originally from the Gaza Strip, which up to 1967 was administered by Egypt. They are eligible for temporary Jordanian passports, which do not entitle them to full citizenship rights such as the right to vote and employment with the government.
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The Jordanian Special Operations Aviation Brigade has been using the BLACK HAWK helicopters for special operations and border security since the first three were delivered last summer at a ceremony in Amman, Jordan. The remaining aircraft were delivered to Jordan in October. The aircraft were part of a foreign military sale structured through the U.S. government.
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Mr. Jordan joined Perot Systems from Electronic Data Systems, where he was corporate vice president in charge of worldwide communications and government relations. Prior to that, he was vice president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, where he managed government relations and policy development.
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Such developments hold considerable promise for diversifying Jordan's economy away from its traditional reliance on exports of phosphates and potash, overseas remittances, and foreign aid. The government has emphasized the information technology (IT) and tourism sectors as other promising growth sectors. The low tax and low regulation Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) is considered a model of a government-provided framework for private sector-led economic growth.
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"We view chemical management as a vital component of global industrial growth in the coming decades," said Jeb Boucher, Managing Principal of Jordan. "Chemicals are essential components of virtually every industrial process -- almost always incorporated into the final product and yet very seldom a core capability of the user. A growing list of industrial companies, government agencies and other users of chemical products are recognizing the benefits of outsourcing the procurement, management and disposition of chemicals to companies such as Haas TCM Group where chemicals are, in fact, core."
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