Word: agora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because, as Palestinian lawyer Hussein abu Hussein says, "We don't receive one agora from the state," these organizations are forced to rely primarily on funding from philanthropic and charitable groups abroad. Between 80 and 100 such Arab voluntary organizations receive 90 per cent of their funding from abroad, mainly from Western Europe and North America...
...career. It meant running for the constituency of the exception and the misfit, not the majority. One main strand of the avantgarde, as it developed in the 19th century and bequeathed its composition to the 20th, hated crowds and democracy, wished to absent itself from the political agora, and stood on its own rights to develop in what Joyce was to call "silence, exile and cunning." It asked the question: Could one create anything at all out of democratic communion with...
...continue for a while. For one thing, the old pounds will continue in circulation for three more months. For another, the new currency is almost indistinguishable from the old. Israelis riding the underground cable car in Haifa immediately took advantage of the similarities. They discovered that the new 1-agora coin (one-hundredth of a shekel) fit into a turnstile slot designed to take 6-pound tokens. They happily rode the cable car at one-sixtieth of the former cost until authorities changed the size of the slot...