Word: mid-march
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...failed to pay 200 of its employees for the past seven months. About 80 angry workers forced their way into a board meeting, compelling company managers to hastily promise an initial payment within days and a settling of all debts by the end of the Iranian year in mid-March - with New Year bonuses as an added sweetener. (See pictures of December's violent street demonstrations in Tehran...
...opposition may want to test the government further, however. Talk on the street is that the next opportunity for protests may come with an ancient Zoroastrian fire festival that takes place in mid-March, just before the Persian New Year, around the start of spring. Meanwhile, opposition websites and social-media channels cited a meeting between Mousavi and Karroubi this week that had Karroubi calling for a referendum on the popularity of Ahmadinejad's government. But that muffled noise is all that can be mustered nowadays. Speaking via official media, Rafsanjani may be signaling, louder than he has since...
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, in mid-March...
...Needless to say, rooms are in very tight supply during university terms, so time your visit with the major holidays, which last roughly from mid-June to mid-October, mid-December to mid-January and mid-March to mid-April. Accommodation can also be booked at Cambridge, Durham and Canterbury universities, among others. See www.universityrooms.co.uk for more...
...April, Smith unveiled “reshaping”—a general charge to implement broad structural changes that have yet to be determined. The news came a few weeks after the University announced in mid-March that the endowment payout—the school’s chief source of revenue—would fall by more than 15 percent over the next two years. “Reshaping” had replaced “resizing” (what happened to the coffee at afternoon meetings) as the new buzzword. The concept arose organically from University...