Word: arazi
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Then, suddenly, Arazi made his move. Shooting past two horses in the back straight, he swiftly overtook the rest of the field and, with turf-devouring nonchalance, loped to victory by five lengths. In the winner's circle, tossing his head like a young virtuoso after a brilliant performance, the horse drew the fond gaze of his jockey, Steve Cauthen. Said Cauthen: "Arazi rides just like a Cadillac...
...Benjamin Arazi...
...Jerusalem this week, a veteran Israeli diplomat named Tuvia Arazi will go on pension and the Political-Economic Planning Division that he directed will be shut down. "We're superfluous," says Arazi, 58, a onetime underground fighter and Ambassador to Cyprus. But he says it with a smile. The Political-Economic Planning Division is actually Israel's antiboycott office, set up eleven years ago to thwart the efforts of 18 Arab countries to choke Israel economically. "The boycott does us infinitesimal harm now," says Arazi. "It is so inefficient and ineffective that we simply don't need...
...size. The Arab League's Boycott-Israel Office, headquartered in Damascus, has 18 branches and a staff of 200. Israel's counterforce, operating on $15,000 a year, had a staff of seven at the height of its activity. At the end it consisted only of Arazi and a deputy, though it also received assistance from Jewish agencies round the world...
...common knowledge among European companies that a bribe of $2,000 to $5,000 is often enough to get a name removed from the list.) The guerrillas also criticize the boycott machinery as "superfluous." Curiously, that is precisely the word used by Israel's Anti-Boycott Director Arazi to describe his own assignment...