Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rajab Motamedi, 45, is a shopkeeper in Tehran's central bazaar, focus of some of the most violent anti-Shah protests. Like other small merchants, Motamedi has been hurt by Iran's cruel inflation (currently 50% annually) more than he has been helped by the prosperity that has expanded the country's middle class, and he believes that the Shah's drive to make Iran a modern industrial state has led to foreign domination. Jailed three times for anti-government activities, he has closed his shop and vows not to reopen until the Shah is overthrown...
...most African cities the central marketplace is a carnival, where women mass in daylong congregation, squat amid bundles and babies, haggle over prices, cluck over misfortunes and paw over food for sale. Not in Luanda. Its central market, a dank, echoing, three-story concrete structure, is virtually empty of food. Long, bare counters stretch away into the urine-scented gloom. Weighing scales swing empty in the hot breeze, and the women sit quietly, waiting...
...unison. In addition, the members created a new form of money, the European Currency Unit, or ecu. For now, at least, the ecu will not be paper money used by the man in the strasse to pay his bills, but simply a bookkeeping device for Europe's central banks to settle debts with each other...
Suzi Park Thomson, onetime aide to retired House Speaker Carl Albert and reputed agent of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency: "I'd like to run for Congress, so Korean Americans have a voice...
...cornerstones of student radicalism. The union officially represents 350,000 students from all over the country and has an operating budget of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which comes from dues paid by individual chapters at most colleges and universities. The union, run by a Central Committee of 11 members, goes beyond simply looking out for students' interests by connecting student issues with the broader question of structural reform of the Canadian economy...