Word: keying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...key step in a methodical transition from 13 years of military rule, what Nigerian officials describe as an "impressive" number of the country's 48.5 million registered voters went to polls this month to choose a President. Last week after ballots had been gathered from places as varied as the slums of the appallingly crowded capital Lagos, the minareted city of Kano in the Muslim north and steamy Enugu in the old Biafra area of the Christian and animist south, the name of Nigeria's first popularly elected chief executive was announced. He is Alhaji Shehu Shagari...
...elected President in 1968. But once in power, says an acquaintance, he became "a total dictator who had a large charisma and could carry people along with him." That did not go for the economy, however. Skilled foreign planters and workers fled, and the country's key cocoa exports collapsed...
...delegate per house is elected to CHUL. The elections are low-key: no posters, no campaigning, no speeches. Students interested in running--there are usually one to three--write a one-paragraph statement about why they want to serve on the committee. Elections to the CRR and CUE work similarly...
...personally think it's a very key site to the Square, visually and design-wise, so it has to be approached sensitively," he said...
...belt. I had worried about the place when I met the guy downstairs who bleached his hair ash blond and posted death poetry, embellished by skull and crossbones, on his door. I got nervous when I heard the strains of opera punctuated by very loud and horrifyingly off-key singing in the room next door. But I knew I was in serious trouble when I heard that question...