Word: hashim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known that the Prophet was born about A.D. 570 to a member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman...
...Vogue's editor in chief, Grace Mirabella: "It's a wonderful, energetic group of people who don't know about the history of manufacturing, so they just make things that are a part of reality today." Adds Bloomingdale's ready-to-wear fashion director, Koko Hashim: "The Californians' clothes are coming out of their environment-how they think, feel, live. They're not doing it to become famous American designers, the way an author sits down to write the Great American Novel. They're just doing...
...Northrop passed to Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi Arabian entrepreneur, $450,000 designated for two Saudi Arabian generals, Hashim Hashim and Asad Zuhair, who served at different times as chief of the nation's air force. Khashoggi denies the generals were bribed to buy Northrop planes. Nonetheless, Northrop did not defend the payment. Millar apologized last week to the Saudi government "for any embarrassment caused by this matter...