Word: feudality
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Domestically, the ruling House of Saud faces some rising discontent from a middle class that remains shut out of political power. In what remains a largely feudal society with a complex system of consensus building, the technocrats and businessmen who emerged during the boom years lack modern forums in which to vent their views sufficiently. Many young Saudis, particularly those educated in the West, are increasingly frustrated by their elders' refusal to allow them any governmental voice...
...been in place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that may be too simple. While the Saudis clearly will not swallow all foreign ways whole, they are just as clearly a country in transition from feudal to modern times...
Speaking about New York City, he said, "it is looking like a feudal city, there are 30,000 millionaires, and twice that many homeless...
...Beni, a roadless wilderness east of the Andes in which some 200 cocaine barons process and ship coca out of huge estates, some as large as 100,000 acres and many equipped with processing plants and airstrips. The biggest target of all was Suarez, who maintains a feudal rule over a colony of peasants in what amounts to a coca state within a state. Though they raided several ranches, the Leopards failed to find Suarez; they uncovered a paltry 380 kilos of cocaine. Clamping down on coca cultivation has been even harder in Peru. Four years ago, Washington launched what...
Along the way, a near feudal system has grown up on Southern tobacco farms. To limit production, farmers were given strict growing allotments. These lucrative allotments are hereditary; most owners, who now include stockbrokers and car salesmen, as well as widows and retired farmers, lease them out for up to $1,500 an acre...