Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ominously, Moghabghab's relatives refused to attend his funeral or claim his body for burial. Following custom, they will accept his body only if it is accompanied by the corpses of his assassins...
...traditions of Hawaii's territorial legislature, few were more cherished than the lawmakers' session-end custom of taking various items of office equipment home as "mementos." Nobody ever objected to the practice until last month, when the legislature adjourned for the last time before Hawaii enters the Union. At that point the Honolulu Advertiser began nosing about, discovered just how enthusiastic the legislators had become in their souvenir collecting. Missing were $3,000 worth of territorial fountain pens, 150 sets (at over $50 a set) of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, $800 worth of rubber stamps...
...Buganda a "disturbed area," decreed emergency police powers, and banned the U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...
Perhaps the most valuable part of the retirement plan however is the custom of allowing out-going professors to retain their studies in Widener where they have easy access to all facilities of the library. Although there is no guarantee that a professor may keep his study, tradition is very strong and few retiring professors are ever forced to vacate the stacks...
...assets total some $2 billion, and receipts run to $500 million annually, but exactly what it spends and earns is a mystery even to the government owners; its balance sheet is, by Mattei custom, uninformative. With it he can buy political influence-he is a lavish contributor to the Christian Democratic Party-but Mattei, independently wealthy, lives almost austerely in a Rome hotel, turns over his salary to charity. At 53, his main interest outside of ENI is trout fishing. "I am going to retire at 60," he says, and critics ruefully acknowledge he is so well entrenched that there...