Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village conciliation boards for mending broken marriages. Such red tape will deprive the Moslem male of his traditional right to shed a wife simply by declaring "I divorce thee" three times. The plan would not abolish the ancient custom of bride price, which often amounts to ten or 20 prime cows. But it would ease the young man's burden by permitting him to pay his in-laws on the installment plan after the wedding...
...January, the nation's first national elections were ruled invalid by the Prime Minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, when it became apparent that his party was about to lose. Jonathan, a chief of Lesotho's major tribe, the Basuto, had King Moshoeshoe (pronounced Mo-shway-shway) put under house arrest for daring to support the opposition. Last week the king was whisked off to exile in The Netherlands...
...from regretting power relationships, Crossman exhilarated in them. Prime Ministerial government was an arena for day-to-day survival in a contest of high stakes. "In the American Cabinet, they're officials. In the British Cabinet, each one of us is a potential prime minister. We could be dismissed by the PM at any time. In that context, you become tremendously aware of power relations...
...whose eyes no longer reflected the same degree of trust and innocence. And because the beaters could swim, went the reasoning, the St. Lawrence hunters would have to use guns, not clubs, to take their limit of 50,000 pups. "Those who protested the kill ings," said a bored Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, "won't be shown the same pictures of baby seals with their big blue or brown eyes...
...fact that [these films received so many nominations] many have more to do with beef Stroganoff and imported champagne and three-inch thick prime ribs than with anything in the nature of Academics," an article in the New York Times said a week ago. The gist of the article was that there is a direct correlation between the amount of promotion within the Academy that a film gets and the number of nominations it receives...