Word: feudality
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...ruler of oil-rich Saudi Arabia (estimated annual revenue from oil: about $400 million) regards Nasser as a Marxist firebrand whose form of "Arab socialism" defiles the Koran; Nasser denounces Saud as a feudal overlord and satyr who keeps his people in bondage. Each morning Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent...
...Prohibited. Over the years, droves of peasants have fled from the dry hinterland to the region's fertile seacoast. But no bounty is to be found there either. A few feudal landlords own virtually all the land, and the best the peasant can expect is a life as a sharecropper or tenant farmer. As a sharecropper, he gives the landlord one-third to one-half of everything he grows, usually must sell his share to his patrāo for 30% to 50% below market price. At the plantation store where he buys supplies, interest on credit runs...
...ignored clandestine appeals to boycott the polls. They heavily endorsed three of Ayub's ministers who were running for the National Assembly - notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce...
...child, you have been spontaneous and variable for too many years and, I might add, with independent causal effect. It is time you became routinized," Herr Weber blusters out. Charisma, whose independent advantages were causing the routine effects all evening, is horrified at the prospect: "I may even become feudal--and based on benefices," she wails. The domineering father, not to be swayed, commissions Emil Durkheim to find his daughter a husband, with the threat that if the attempt is unsuccessful, Weber will have to become an anthropologist...
...holdings, is compensated by the government over a ten-year period. The Shah, who in the last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most cling tenaciously to the feudal system, which has given big landowners control of three-fourths of Iran's arable soil. Some 17,000 villages are owned outright by 160 wealthy families, and most of the nation's 16 million peasants are serfs...