Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...
...hitherto peaceful districts like Montgomery and Lyallpur there is not one town which has not been a battlefield. There is no bazaar which has not been burned out. Streams of refugees can be seen approaching all bridges, virtual convoys miles long. On a ten-mile stretch of road leading to the big bridge over the Sutlej River into Pakistan, there must have been 100,000 people, most of them walking beside bullock carts piled high with their sole possessions...
MIDDLE EAST The Quickest War No amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar. This was no drill. In stunning pre-dawn air strikes across the Arab world, Israeli jets all but eliminated Arab airpower-and with it any chance of an Arab victory. By Monday night, the end of the first day's fighting, some 400 warplanes of four Arab nations had been obliterated. Egypt alone lost...
Some two miles north of the glittering lights of Tokyo's Ginza district is a lesser-known commercial enclave that, in its way, is every bit as dazzling. Called Akihabara, it is a booming bazaar that spills over 20 blocks and is probably the world's most fiercely competitive market for electrical goods. In hundreds of sprawling stores and cubbyhole shops festooned with brightly colored banners proclaiming bargains, customers can buy almost any type of vacuum cleaner or videocassette recorder, refrigerator or radio, humidifier or home computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores...
Although there is little doubt that the Soviets will choose to stay, their pervasive role in Ethiopia is far from fully supported. Traders in Addis Ababa's thriving bazaar, the Mercado, resent Soviet browsers, who rarely have enough money to buy their merchandise. "They keep to themselves and won't even employ Ethiopians as cooks or drivers," complains one resident. That undercurrent of hostility perhaps explains why Mengistu has not tried to impose many East-bloc values on a country whose Western links go back to the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the 16th century...