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Outside Cairo, Sadat's power base includes the 'umdas, or mayors, of rural villages; bred in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat is as comfortable with local mayors as he is with sophisticated city dwellers. In fact, Sadat functions as if Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory...
...clothes that would sell themselves." The result has been perhaps the greatest turnaround in English tailoring since Beau Brummell first sported trousers instead of breeches. At a spring fashion show-the first in its history-the 200-member Federation of Merchant Tailors presented a new London look called "the Delta line." The collection consists of nearly 40 models for town, country, leisure, travel, the tropics, evening wear, and sports such as shooting, racing and golfing. It demonstrates, says Federation President Robert Bright, "that Savile Row could create a modern line without sacrificing traditional quality...
...introduced Harvard's new Delta 2000: "There's a good chance that something won't work on the computer while you're there visiting it, but I want you to know that only happens rarely...
Matadi, Zaire Republic--It was a six-hour trip up the Congo River. The first half was delta swamp with dense jungle and occasional mudflats where huge flocks of birds congregated. The second half was hills, cliifs, ravines, small huts wherever there was greenery, and lone fishermen paddling along the backwaters...
...council of up to 25 employees elected by their peers. It is not done all the time, but management is theoretically required to consult the councils on practically anything likely to affect the company significantly-expansion plans, merger possibilities, closings, changes in pension plans. In 1974, workers of the Delta-Lloyd insurance group succeeded in overriding management's plan to merge with a Dutch firm and chose instead to make a deal with the British Commercial Union Assurance...