Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace who has devoted his post-presidential career to resolving some of the thorniest international conflicts. Or a proud figure consumed by the desire to live down his 1980 election defeat and win the Nobel Peace Prize many feel he should have received in 1978 for mediating the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David accords...
They also engage in that most honorable and despised form of wordsmanship, the pun. The gooey remains of an ancient Egyptian are "guaca-mummy." A vampirish hospital worker is called "Nurse Feratu." Acolytes cavorting in worship to a Japanese monster are "the Mothra Graham Dance Troupe...
Sohad Ahmad, an impoverished Egyptian farmer's wife, knew nothing about the huge United Nations population conference going on 50 miles to the north, in Cairo. For her, family planning was not a global issue but a personal, practical matter. Getting a checkup last week at a health clinic in the rural town of Sinnuris, Ahmad laughed when a nurse asked if she was pregnant. "No," she replied, "we know pregnancy is an evil now." She and her husband, Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad...
That poor Egyptian women in a farming community would take action to limit the number of children they bear illustrates how rapidly attitudes about family size are changing -- and not just in so-called developed countries but in every corner of the globe. Only a few years ago, the task of persuading % rural populations to lower their birthrates was considered impossible; farmers presumably wanted to have many children to help work the fields. But as land becomes scarce, even uneducated villagers begin to see that having more children in an effort to grow more food can become self-defeating...
Faced with these dire statistics, the Egyptian government began to explore family planning in the early 1980s, at first cautiously and then with increasing boldness. In fact, the U.N. gave President Hosni Mubarak its 1994 population award because Egypt cut its growth rate from more than 3% in 1985 to just over 2% last year...