Word: subgroup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countries represented at the meeting were members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, a subgroup of OPEC that accounts for more than 60% of its production. Given the Arabs' weight in OPEC councils, it is almost certain that some price increase, possibly along the lines of the Saudi Arabians' suggestion of 5% on Jan. 1 followed by subsequent hikes of 2% or 3% at "relatively frequent intervals," will be adopted when all the cartel's members meet in Abu Dhabi in December...
...families (53% of the total) have at least two earners; their median income is $20,400, or $7,200 above that of one-earner families. But this includes couples of all ages with some of the spouses working only part-time. Yet there is a powerful and growing subgroup: moneyed, self-indulgent, career-oriented families in which the husbands are in their mid-20s to mid-30s. Of the 11 million families in this age bracket, nearly four million are households where the wife has a full-time job. And many of the multiple-earner families have combined incomes...
...system is shot through with absurdities. Chinese are classified as a colored subgroup; the Japanese in South Africa, who are mostly foreign businessmen, are regarded as "honorary whites"?thereby illustrating the comment of Frantz Fanon, the black radical writer, that "you are rich because you are white, but you are also white because you are rich." A black beauty queen who won a holiday at a Cape hotel was refused accommodation because the hotel did not have international status. In a reshuffle of Durban's elaborately segregated beaches, Indians took over one formerly white beach but discovered they could...
...Mande-Tan, representing a subgroup, proposed as official language of Mali, important lingua franca of western Africa, having some literature written in Arabic script or indigenous script (e.g. Vai) and spoken by over six million people...
Among the offshoots of Al Fatah, however, are the notorious Black September teams, whose exploits outside the parent organization include the Munich massacre of 1972, in which eleven Israeli athletes were killed, and the slaying of one Belgian and two American diplomats in Khartoum in March 1973. This secret subgroup took its name from September 1970, when King Hussein forced a showdown with fedayeen groups that had been encroaching on military and political power inside Jordan. The King's soldiers not only chased the commandos out of the country but in the process killed at least 2,000 commandos...