Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From scattered western literature, for example, Cassidy has gleaned the definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts...
...claim of self-defense may just have been a ploy used by Israel to mask other intentions, suggested Haggard. Even if Israel didn't know for sure that the PLO committed the slayings, it may have wished to send, not only to the PLO but to the whole Arab world, a threatening message "we will strike back in any situation...
...million bbl. per day in 1981 to about 2 million bbl. per day currently, Saudi Arabia now appears eager to move its merchandise again. Traders believe the country will try to double its sales by quietly offering price cuts that could include a $3-per-bbl. drop for its Arab light crude, to $25. Saudi Arabia has been virtually the last OPEC member to stand firmly by the group's official prices. The country's large discount would further reduce the organization's already faint voice in setting global petroleum prices...
...have turned to foreign brides, particularly from India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, who typically settle for dowries of only about $1,000. Such marriages are now thought to account for as many as half of all those in the sheikdoms, raising government fears that the region's Arab identity will be diluted. To lure men away from the non-Arab brides, the government is / considering a national fund to subsidize the dowries of grooms who marry native brides. Some women in the Emirates have another solution: give wives more rights, they say, and the bride price will drop...
...UNITED ARAB EMIRATES...