Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There is much talk now about how to get out of the country and where to go. This is a special preoccupation of middle-class Kabulis, the technically trained, the businessmen, those with some Western-style education or language ability. In addition to the 600,000 staunchly Muslim rural Afghans who have voted with their feet in the past 18 months by crossing the mountains into Pakistan, there is a new and growing exodus by Kabulis and other urbanized Afghans...
Leaving the country is not easy. Every Afghan passport issued has to be personally signed by the Minister or Deputy Minister of the Interior and costs the equivalent of $500. But by exploiting connections, or by bribery, many middle-class Afghans are getting passports. After that hurdle, they have to explain to their employers why they want to leave. Feigned illness of a spouse requiring treatment abroad (particularly in Pakistan or India) is one ploy. Others who have dependents without passports have escaped in more daring ways. Taxis with cramped, hidden compartments built under back seats have smuggled some from...
Wilson sets the company standards for first-class engineering. He has surrounded himself with top aeronautical specialists, who had better know their stuff when they make presentations to top management. Wilson grows downright testy at numbers that do not add up or equations that are faulty. The dictum around headquarters: "Wilson doesn't want history. Give it to him on an 8-in. by 10-in. piece of paper and be sure your numbers are right...
...weekly fee. Even with that extra spending money, Joseph went into debt, and his psychological condition worsened. Now he is back with the same psychotherapist, going twice a week at $60 per session,* and almost $1,200 behind in his payments. Says he: "I thought therapy was a middle-class frill I could give up to meet inflation. But the economy is so bad I can't get through the week without therapy...
After composing songs based on the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" story for Alfred's course, Fletcher more fully developed some of the ideas he had worked on in class: he added lyrics, developed characters and changed the setting of the story...