Word: malis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mande-Tan, representing a subgroup, proposed as official language of Mali, important lingua franca of western Africa, having some literature written in Arabic script or indigenous script (e.g. Vai) and spoken by over six million people...
...such non-oil-producing countries in the developing world as Pakistan, Mali and Sri Lanka, any increase in oil prices presents enormous problems. Most Third World states have managed to pay their oil bills for the past three years only by borrowing an estimated $100 billion from public and private institutions in the U.S. and other industrial countries. At present, the developing countries' total indebtedness stands at a towering $ 170 billion...
...Sahel-the southern edge of the Sahara, where as many as half a million died in the great 1972-74 drought-have brought adequate harvests, but the moisture may prove to be a mixed blessing. The rainfall spawned an almost biblical plague of rats, locusts and caterpillars in Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Upper Volta. Millions of gerbils, which U.S. children often keep as pets, are loose on the land in Niger, devouring everything in sight...
...Worlds in Collision, Temple unleashes a torrent of arcane information. The reader must keep his bearings in a swirl of genuine astronomical mysteries, an thropological dates and the tricky cross currents of comparative mythology. The kernel of his thesis lies with the Dogon, an African tribe living in Mali. After studying their legends in the works of French anthropologists, Temple became convinced that the Dogon had precise knowledge of the star Sirius thousands of years before telescope technology revealed such information to astronomers...
...interdependence, and the ancillary notion that Harvard possesses a desirable, highly marketable commodity. In 1974, the University established the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to coordinate international projects of an interdisciplinary nature. The institute is currently engaged in projects in Indonesia, Bolivia, South Korea, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, and Iran...