Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper chamber based on inheritance is a feudal relic that has no place in a modern democracy...
Outside Cash. It has been no easy task. Despite his father's efforts. Hassan is faced with the grim fact that 80% of the population live in feudal and near-feudal conditions. Hassan's task is to sweep away old traditions of tribalism, apathy and religious extremism without being swept away in the process. He negotiates amiably with France, which once held the territory in a colonial grip. In Paris last week, French and Moroccan negotiators opened talks for an $80 million loan, the biggest single French aid package since Moroccan independence...
...Worth Rebuffing. What helped make young Americans apolitical in the first place, says Keniston. was the absence of a feudal aristocracy to resent and smash. During the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, for instance, the young could easily see themselves rising from rags to riches in a world that rewarded hard work, not rebellion. Now the "image of youth as an apprenticeship for upward mobility is waning," to be replaced by a self-centered style of behavior that Keniston calls "youth culture." It has many forms-the beatnik, the delinquent, the suburban adolescent-but all have in common...
...expedition was costing Nasser heavily in money ($1,000,000 a day) as well as in blood. Only last month, Yemen's self-proclaimed President, Abdullah Sallal, the former commander of the palace guard who turned against the Imam, seemed to have the tiny feudal land firmly under control. Even when Saudi Arabia's Nasser-hating Crown Prince Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein rushed arms, advisers and money to the royalists, they seemed to have little effect...
...hero, or villain, of the antispending, anticorruption drive is tall, hawk-nosed Crown Prince Feisal, 57, who was hurriedly called home last October by his brother, King Saud, when revolution in neighboring Yemen threatened Saudi Arabia's feudal regime. "We are discouraging unnecessary luxury and wast," said Prince Feisal last week in his Red Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. "We have stopped playing with money. We are now devoting all our resources to vital and beneficial projects and, thanks to Allah, we have great resources: nearly 50 billion barrels in proven oil reserves and $400 million...